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Photographer:
Clyde Dickens [ View profile ]
Captured:
Jun 7, 2013
Location:
Sydney, Australia
Photo Category:
Tugs
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Jun 7, 2013
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3,033 x 2,014

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Sydney Harbour, Berrys Bay. 7 June 2013.
See Google Earth 33°50'39.79" S 151°11'44.85" E

Info from BR_Reef with thanks :

(L) KOALA

Main engine: 1 x 8 cyl GM Detroit 8V-71 diesel, 239 bhp/1800 rpm.

Built 1945 by Howard Moffatt & Company, Pyrmont NSW. 25 grt; standard dimensions : 45'0 x 14'8 x 5'9ft.

Standard 45 ft wooden towboat, designed by the Australian Shipbuilding Board; built to the order of the Australian Ministry of Munitions, Small Craft Construction Directorate; completed as US ARMY WT107 KOROWA (S-454) for the US Government.

(R) SYDPORT

Timber hulled; 31 grt; 13.72 x 4.42 x 2.65m; 1 x 6 cyl GM Detroit 8V-71, 239 bhp/1800 rpm.

Designed by A N Swinfield; built 1961 by Ballina Slipway & Engineering Co, Ballina NSW, for Harbour Lighterage Ltd, registered 8/5/1962 at Sydney.

AMSA data :
O.N. 316107 ... Length : 13.72 m
Year built : 1961 ... Type : Tug
Home port : Sydney

For starboard side pic of Koala (not a nautical name!)
See http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1815634
For Sydport underway (note people size for scale) ]
See http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1704732#

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Thank you Gordy. I saw them for the first time when wind moved bushes as I passed on a regular trip around the Balls Head loop road.

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Thanks Clyde, the one on the right is an old 45 footer, a company I worked for had one of them...they built a lot here in Australia and New Zealand back in the war

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person
I agree Dave, but they ARE real. Probably now wonderful toys for their owners.

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person
They look like model boats , you could allmost stand shoreside and operate them by remote control!

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They look interesting, more like from The Tugs series. :D

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