Ability
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Ability (1910)
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Ability |
| Owner: | Allan Taylor & Co |
| Ship registration number: | Unknown |
| Ship official number: | Unknown |
| Completed: | 1910 |
| Status: | Wrecked |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Wood Steamer |
| Tonnage: | Gross tonnage (GT) of 140 tons |
| Displacement: | Net tonnage (NT) of Unknown tons |
| Length: | 30.48 m |
| Beam: | 8.382 m |
| Draught: | 1.829 m |
| Installed power: | Compound 15nhp |
| Ship primary use: | Transport |
| Ship industry: | |
| Ship passenger capacity: | 0 |
| Crew: | 0 |
The Ability was a wooden Steamer coastal transport cargo ship of 140 tons, owned by Parsons, R & Plunkett. Ship was scuttled and abandoned off Newcastle, New South Wales on 3 June 1960 or off Sydney on 3 April 1965. [1]
References
- ^ Australian National Shipwreck Database, 2011, page chart
Sources
- "Ability". Australian National Shipwreck Database. https://apps5a.ris.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/wreck.do?key=5. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
Further reading
Online Database's
Australian National Shipwreck Database[1]
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [2]
Encyclopaedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks [3]
Books
- Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 ISBN 978-0-646-11081-3.
- Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2 910.4530994 BAT
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 2 1851–1871 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Sydney. Reed, 1980 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 3 1871–1900 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Geelong Vic: List Publishing, 1982 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 4 1901–1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1987 910.4530994 LON
- Australian shipwrecks Vol. 5 Update 1986 By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995. Portarlington Vic. Marine History Publications, 1991 910.4530994 LON
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