Polly Woodside
 The Polly Woodside at her berth in Melbourne
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The Polly Woodside is a museum ship owned by the Melbourne Maritime Museum .
history
The ship was ordered in 1885 as Polly Woodside for the shipping company The Barque Polly Woodside Co. Ltd. of the Glasgow shipowner William J. Woodside. Construction took place at Workman, Clark & Company shipyard in Belfast . The Polly Woodside was created as an iron barque and was one of the last large sailing ships made from this material. The ship was named after the nickname "Polly" from Williams' wife Marian. For many years the freighter was mainly employed by his shipping company in global trampoline shipping , often also in the nitrate trade between South America and Great Britain. The Polly Woodside made her first voyage to Australia in 1900. The ship ran aground in New Zealand in 1903 and was then handed over to the shipping company AH Turnbull & Company from Littleton, New Zealand, which took the ship to Rona Munro, the daughter of the superintendent of the Canterbury Steamship Company , renamed to Rona and mainly used in the logging between New Zealand and Australia.
During a voyage to the United States during World War I, the ship lost its bowsprit and figurehead in a collision in the port of San Francisco .
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After the war another sale to the shipping company GH Scales in Wellington followed and in July 1921 the Rona became a mastless Hulk after another stranding on Barrat's Reef near Pencarron Heads in the port entrance to Wellington . She was sold to the Adelaide Steamship Company in 1923 and used as a coal lighter from then on. After two years of service in Sydney, she came to Melbourne in 1925, where she was used until the Second World War. After a war mission in New Guinea, she returned to Melbourne in 1946. In 1953 its use as a coal hulk ended and in the early 1960s the unused ship was to be sunk in Bass Strait . A group of ship enthusiasts around Karl Kortum and Dr. Graeme Robertson suggested a rescue of the severed ship. In 1967 Messrs. Howard Smith from Melbourne, the last owner, donated the Hulk to the National Trust of Australia . A committee of volunteers from the Polly Woodside Volunteers' Association (PWVA), led by Capt. GH Heyen MBE and the rigger Tor Lindqvist began restoring and re-rigging the ship in 1974. Since Easter 1977 the Rona has been part of the Melbourne Maritime Museum in Melbourne. In 1978 the ship was renamed Polly Woodside again . In 1988, the Polly Woodside was the first cargo ship ever to be awarded the prestigious World Ship Trust Medal. After the Melbourne Maritime Museum closed, the ship remained under the care of PWVA. The ship can no longer leave her berth there in Duke's dry dock, as a bridge has been built over the lower reaches of the Yarra River in the meantime .
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen: The last great sailing ships . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0860-2 (p. 29/29).
Web links
- Official site of Polly Woodside (English)
- Side of the Polly Woodside Volunteers' Association (English)
Coordinates: 37 ° 49 ′ 28.7 ″ S , 144 ° 57 ′ 11.9 ″ E