History | |
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Owner: | Allan Taylor & Co |
Completed: | 1910 |
Fate: | Wrecked |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Wood Steamer |
Tonnage: | 140 GT |
Length: | 30.48 m (100.0 ft) |
Beam: | 8.382 m (27.50 ft) |
Draught: | 1.829 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Installed power: | Compound 15nhp |
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.
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