Yelta Smelter Ruins
Yelta may refer to: * ''Yelta'' (tugboat) *Yelta, South Australia Yelta is a rural locality at the northern end of the Yorke Peninsula and a satellite village to the town of Moonta, South Australia, Moonta, centred on the former Yelta Mine. It is located in the Copper Coast Council. The modern locality was est ... * Yelta, Victoria, Australia {{Disambiguation ...
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Yelta (tugboat)
''Yelta'' is a steam tug which operated in the Australian state of South Australia from 1949 to 1976 within both the Port River and the waters of Gulf St Vincent immediately adjoining the river's mouth. After being laid up for about nine years, she was purchased in 1985 by the Government of South Australia for addition to the collection of the South Australian Maritime Museum as a museum ship. As of 1985, she was considered to be the only remaining steam-powered tug operating within Australian waters. ''Yelta'' was built at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney, during 1948 by the Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company for Ritch & Smith of Port Adelaide, South Australia. After an 11-day voyage from Sydney, ''Yelta'' arrived in Port Adelaide on 22 February 1949. Until her retirement in 1976, she assisted vessels to and from docks and other facilities within the Port River. She also assisted in refloating vessels that ran aground within the Port River such as ''Eastwave'' in 1950, ...
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