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  Cockatoo Island, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cockatoo Island is an island in Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia.
In 1913 Cockatoo Island become the Commonwealth Naval Dockyard, but in 1933 it was leased to the Cockatoo Island Docks and Engineering Company Ltd. During World War II, Cockatoo Island's importance to the Allies was enhanced by the fall of Singapore and its shipyards.
Cockatoo Island Docks and Engineering Company Ltd (1947).
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 Sydney, NSW, Australia: Islands of Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
On the summit of Cockatoo Island are 20 of Australia's earliest public grain silos, in their original condition but empty as they have been for over 150 years.
Cockatoo Island prisoners were relocated to Darlinghurst Gaol and the island's prison buildings became the Industrial School for Girls and a reformatory from 1871 until 1888.
Cockatoo Island now holds a vast array of facilities and spaces: immense industrial workshops, clusters of courtyards, the prison barracks precinct, underground grain silos, houses on the hilltop, a powerhouse, cranes, water towers, rail tracks and tunnels, and two magnificent docks.
www.allthingsaus.com /sydneyonline/islands.htm   (3199 words)

  
 Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Sites - Cockatoo
Cockatoo Island is the largest island in Sydney Harbour, and is located at the junction of the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers.
Cockatoo Island prisoners are relocated to Darlinghurst Gaol and prison buildings become the Industrial School for Girls and a reformatory.
Cockatoo Island becomes one of the first places in Sydney to be lit by electric lights.
www.harbourtrust.gov.au /topics/sitescockatoo.html   (1680 words)

  
 Planning Sydney Harbour Federation Trust -The Plan Cockatoo
The Cockatoo Island prisoners were relocated to Darlinghurst Gaol and the island's prison buildings became an Industrial School for Girls and a reformatory from 1871 until 1888.
Cockatoo Island is the dominant landform in the large basin of water bounded by the shores of Woolwich, Drummoyne, Birchgrove and Balmain.
The name Cockatoo Dockyard gives a false impression of a single function when in fact the island's function was highly varied, ranging from heavy shipbuilding and engineering to small boat construction and design, fine joinery and cabinet making.
www.harbourtrust.gov.au /topics/plancockatoo.html   (5023 words)

  
 homepage\aha97net
Paul was instructed to investigate the government's contractual relations with the Hoskins Ironworks at Lithgow, to examine the suitability of New South Wales as a host for an integrated iron and steel works, and finally to assess the feasibility of establishing a state owned and operated iron and steel works.
Clearly then, Cutler, Keele and the Cockatoo Board, were in favour of a site closer to the city and its existing utilities and service infrastructure (rail links, wharfage, and power) and no doubt the extra operating costs in handling materials and labour to and from the island influenced their judgement.
Gould, G.E. A Dock for Newcastle: The Movement to Establish a Dock in the Port of Newcastle 1888-1928.
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 HMAS Stalwart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMAS Stalwart paid off to reserve on 1 December 1925 and was sold for scrap on 4 June 1937.
The second HMAS Stalwart was a destroyer tender laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 23 June 1964, launched on 7 October 1966 by Lady Casey, wife of the Governor General, and commissioned on 9 February 1968.
HMAS Stalwart paid off on 9 March 1990 and was sold in May 1990 to Marlines S.A., a Greek shipping company, that renamed it MV Her Majesty M intending to convert it to a passenger ferry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Stalwart   (262 words)

  
 Immigrant Ship Information
She was sold to a German company on 12/8/1912 and was renamed "Cyrill" and in 1914 went to the Italian company, Societa Italiana di Navigazione Lloyd Mediterraneo, who renamed her "Virginia".
In 1871, her engines were compounded at Southampton and on 27/1/1894 she sailed from Bremen to NY and Baltimore on her last voyage for this company.
Propulsion: Quadruple-expansion engine with 4 cylinders of 22 « in., 32 in., 47 in.
www.fortunecity.com /littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipa.htm   (19699 words)

  
 Chapter 2: Ports and Shipping, 1788-1970   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Although their engines were neither powerful nor efficient, auxiliary steamers could make very fast times since they could sail under canvas at high speed and did not need to carry too much coal.
Their engines gave them manoeuvrability - and hence safety - across the notoriously hazardous sand bars at the mouths of so many rivers along the eastern littoral, and the distances were relatively short, meaning they did not have to carry huge supplies of coal.
Fitzroy Dock is still intact, and so is Mort's Dock, although it is now filled in and the former shipyard is a public park, with the stone capping of this most historic dock marking out where it lies beneath the lawn.
www.ahc.gov.au /publications/national-stories/transport/chapter2.html   (14962 words)

  
 The Honourable Company of Master Mariners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Launched on the 28th of March 1936 in Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. Ltd. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Launched on the 10th of February 1940 in Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. Ltd.
Launched on the 28th of March 1935 in Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. Ltd. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
www.hcmm.org.uk /hqswellington/grimsby_sloops.asp   (540 words)

  
 NSW Heritage Office Website - Listing Heritage Items - State Heritage Register - Item View
In 1800 the company of HMS Lady Nelson gained control of the island, and a Dr Brandt, with his pet dog and baboon - which became an attraction for local Sydneysiders to visit the island - lived in the convict house.
The dock gates, or caissons were designed by Vickers Armstrong in the UK and built by the Sydney Steel Company Pty Ltd. They included steel capable of building a 10,000 ton ship and were viewed as the most difficult welding project ever conducted in Australia up to that time (Frame 191).
Officially opened on 24 March 1945, the dock was named in honour of Captain James Cook RN, with the celebratory ribbon cut by the bow of the frigate HMAS Lachlan.
www.heritage.nsw.gov.au /07_subnav_02_2.cfm?itemid=5055190   (8622 words)

  
 Chapter 1: Balmain and the Union's second Launching. Ship Painters and Dockers Union
Mort's Dock and Engineering Company at this time was a flourishing and influential, and possibly the biggest, industrial concern in the Balmain district.
In the background of the activities of the small union of ship, slip and dock workers (the Balmain Laborers' Union) loomed their 1890s experiences and those of other waterfront unions, including the closely related waterside workers, all of which had been decimated by the 1890s strikes.
Excavation for dry dock at Woolwich, c.1900; vessel in dry dock at Woolwich, c.1908.
www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunion01.htm   (2622 words)

  
 The Woolwich Shops
Even at 750 feet, and representing the largest dry dock facility in Sydney Harbour, Mort’s Dock and Engineering Co had problems with accommodating demand, and during 1912 the company was again forced to lease the government docks on Cockatoo Island to meet orders.
The main problem with the Woolwich Dock was (that) although it had been designed to accommodate two vessels at any one time, the increasing size of ships meant it was frequently 10 to 50 feet short.
In 1913 the company decided to increase the length of the dock to 850 feet, which would enable it to accommodate not only two vessels at the same time, but all but the very largest ships using the port.
www.huntershilltrust.org.au /arch06a.htm   (2208 words)

  
 RMS Queen Mary - LostLiners.com
There she was handed over to the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company where she was converted completely over to a military vessel.
During the course of her refit, which last 41 days, her engines, boilers and steering mechanisms were overhauled.
On September 27th, 1946 she returned to Southampton and upon docking was officially released from war service and returned to her grateful owners at Cunard.
www.lostliners.com /Liners/Cunard/Queen_Mary/grayghost.html   (2110 words)

  
 HMAS Bendigo (corvette) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first HMAS Bendigo (J-187/B-237/A-111) was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney in New South Wales on 12 August 1940, launched on 1 March 1941 by Dame Mary Hughes, wife of the Minister for the Navy, and commissioned on 10 May 1941.
HMAS Bendigo paid off on 27 September 1946, was sold to the Ta Hing Company of Hong Kong as a seagoing vessel and renamed Cheung Hing.
The ship was later acquired by the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and re-armed for naval service under the name Loyang.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Bendigo_(corvette)   (159 words)

  
 Candido Macinante branch
Macinante lectured before the Institution of Engineers, Australia, of which he was a Fellow, the Australian Acoustical Society, and in postgraduate courses at Monash University and the University of New South Wales.
Engineers who graduated from the P.N. Russell School of Engineering at the University of Sydney during the years 1935-13 may remember me as `Geordie's offsider'.
At Cockatoo Docks a jig grinding machine was likewise disturbed by a forging hammer in the vicinity.
home.dialix.com /~u2899/mac_memories/candido_branch/candido_branch.html   (11324 words)

  
 Travels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
There was another man there, Bolot, who worked for Guerman as a web designer for their company Arctic Travel, and who could speak English as he had lived in the US for 12 months.
There’s a cockatoo in a large glass sided cage, a red parrot, a snake, spider, fish, cat, and in the garage, 4 dogs.
Others at the docks earn money by selling smoked or dried omul, a relative of the salmon that is unique to Lake Baikal and a tourist attraction in its own right.
home.comcast.net /~ngaire07/travels.htm   (14243 words)

  
 Tasmania Trip - April 2002
The girls also loved exploring the Commandant's House - since it was built on (and up) the side of a hill, and was essentially a rabbit warren with lots of rooms, passages, stairs, etc. Each successive commandant apparently added on, according to the size of their families (or egos).
There were some beautiful gums in the area, with interesting gumnuts (more correctly, eucalyptus seed cases) scattered about, which of course got the girls going, trying to find and collect different types.
Oh, and there is a resident cockatoo named Alfred, who spends most of the day sitting on the roof yelling (he speaks a few words of English), sqawking, or making a sound like a child.
www.uisgebeatha.org /tasmania_apr2002.html   (6943 words)

  
 Roadtrip 2003
It's the kind of company you are proud to work for, and they treated their employees right.
The company has gotten huge, and are now in two buildings and moving into yet a bigger one.
Imagine my dismay as we passed right by the company store and museum with no place to pull in after I realized, remember I was dealing with 100 feet of trucks and trailers as I was in the lead.
members.aol.com /airstm2268/roadtrip2003.htm   (22028 words)

  
 Computer task   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In 1913 Cockatoo Island become the Commonwealth Naval Dockyard, but in 1933 it was leased to the Cockatoo Island Docks & Engineering Company Ltd. During World War II, Cockatoo Island's importance to the Allies was enhanced by the fall of Singapore and its shipyards.
Sindler, an engineer, was trying to get the olive out of his martini cocktail without using his fingers.
Dean Clough a refurbished worsted spinning mill is the home of Barrie Rutter 's Northern Broadsides theatre company and the IOU theatre company as well as providing space for eight art galleries.
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And yet the damage caused by the acidic droppings of the silver gull, Australia's native and protected seagull, is testing the metal of our cities, according to a study being conducted by Deakin University in Melbourne.
The study's author, Ian Temby, notes the example of seagull droppings causing $1.2 million worth of corrosion damage to a container crane in the suburb of Footscray, adjacent to the docks.
The company Patrick Autocare employs one person at about $45,000 a year just to clean bird droppings off the 1200 cars it keeps for short periods at Glebe Island and Darling Harbour.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/05/28/1022569772369.html   (420 words)

  
 T1300
(iii) The Company and the employee may agree to a variation of this subclause to meet the circumstances of the work in hand, provided that the Company shall not be required to make any payment in respect of any time allowed in excess of twenty minutes.
The employer companies put aside an application to vary that had been prepared for lodgment, contingent upon the position advocated to Smithers ACJ in Jarrad not having prevailed.
The application was heard by Ryan J on 7 April 1998, decision delivered on 19 April 1999, and the appeal determined by the Full Court on 28 October 1999.
www.airc.gov.au /my_html/T1300.htm   (9546 words)

  
 Ocean Waves - Royal Australian Navy - HMAS Yarra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The second HMAS Yarra (U-77) was a Grimsby class sloop laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney, New South Wales 24 May 1934, launched 28 March 1935 by Mrs Parkhill, wife of Archdale Parkhill, Minister for Defence and commissioned 21 January 1936.
HMAS Yarra, commanded by Lieutenant Commander John Rankin RAN, was sunk by the enemy Japanese cruisers Atago, Takao and Maya on 4 March 1942 with the loss of 138 of her crew.
HMAS Yarra (11) the second to carry this name was a Grimbsy Escort Sloop laid down at Cockatoo Dockyard in Sydney on the 24th.
www.royal-navy.org /ran/content/view/2/4   (1534 words)

  
 Albatross Hotel
HMAS Albatross was a seaplane tender laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney in New South Wales in April 1926, launched on 23 February 1928 by Lady Stonehaven, wife of the Governor General of Australia, completed on 21 December 1928 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 23 January 1929.
HMAS Albatross paid off to reserve on 26 April 1933, was accepted by the Admiralty as part payment for the cruiser HMAS Hobart and sailed for England on 11 July 1938.
The naval base had the unusual distinction of being shared by a small civilian passenger terminal, which at various times was operated by the Masling and later Hazleton airlines companies using small propellor driven aircraft.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/3/albatross-hotel.html   (1972 words)

  
 HMAS ALBATROSS - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
On 11 August she suffered considerable damage when struck forward by a torpedo off Courseulles.
In 1946 the Admiralty sold ALBATROSS to a British company which planned to convert her into a passenger luxury cruiser.
High conversion costs caused abandonment of the scheme and it was decided to use the ship as an off shore floating cabaret at Torquay on the Devonshire coast.
www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/albatross.html   (490 words)

  
 Voyage of Peace and Aloha
They had ripped their sail trying to leave the day before, so we helped them get the sail up on the dock and out to the rain, while Dick rented a car to drive to Point a Pitre, on the other side of the island to have it fixed.
We tried to go into the customs dock, but it looked too small and shallow for our boat, so they said we could anchor in the harbour and come back in the dinghy, which we did after lunch.
We were told at the dock by other cruisers, that the immigration officier had gone to lunch and it had taken them 2+ hours to clear through, because of a large cruise ship which was late arriving.
www.peaceandaloha.com /hotnews2.htm   (20091 words)

  
 Australian Information Brokers: Ian Johnston: Resume
The company provides a diverse range of professional information services, mainly for coalitions of consumer, commerce, industry and professional associations representing around 500,000 Australian small businesses.
As a consequence, an effective marketing strategy was implemented and over time the company has established itself in Federal Government telecommunications market.
Developed a competitive neutrality strategy that led to Telecom being established as a company (Telstra) under Corporations law and subjected Federal, State and Territory laws resulting in the payments of income tax, sales tax, customs duty, excise, payroll tax and motor vehicle registration.
www.smallbusiness.org.au /resume.htm   (2556 words)

  
 Portable cranes, cranes wedding, tower cranes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This company erected its portable tower crane adjacent to the new.
Various sizes and types of cranes, ranging from small portable cranes to large overhead travelling cranes, were in service at Cockatoo Island Dockyard,.
The in-state crane company was using a portable telescopic-type tower crane with a.
www.ancial-form.com /cranes/portable_cranes.html   (794 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
HMAS Swan paid off for disposal at Sydney on 15 May 1928 and was broken up for scrap at Cockatoo Dockyard in 1930.
The second HMAS Swan (U-74/A-427/F-74) was a Grimsby class sloop laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 1 May 1935, launched on 28 March 1936 and commissioned on 21 January 1937.
General Eather, GOC 11th Division, Australian Forces, accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in New Ireland from General Ito on board Swan on 18 September 1945.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /HMAS_Swan   (264 words)

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