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A houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington, US Houseboat Cornelia in Ystad, Sweden, 2018. A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily for regular dwelling. Most houseboats are not motorized, as they are usually moored or kept stationary, fixed at a berth, and often tethered to land to provide utilities ...
Royal Australian Army AT1555: 15m: 8m: 1946 Boyer [1] Royal Australian Navy RNT104: Cape Peron (Westamar) [1] Royal Australian Navy RNT104: Tacoma (Maydeena (1)) 1950: America: Converted to fishing boat: 1950- Swiftness (Temp. Plover) 1920: Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, Scotland: Burnt and Scuttled Storm Bay, Tasmania 1979: Diesel: 1959–1970s ...
Yelta is a steam tug which operated in the Australian state of South Australia from 1949 to 1976 within both the Port River and the waters of Gulf St Vincent immediately adjoining the river's mouth. After being laid up for about nine years, she was purchased in 1985 by the Government of South Australia for addition to the collection of the ...
The Crawley Edge Boatshed, commonly referred to as the Blue Boat House, [1] is a boathouse located on the Swan River at Crawley in Perth, Western Australia.A well-known landmark, [2] the boatshed was built in the 1930s, and since the 1940s has been owned mainly by the Nattrass family.
Fearless is a tugboat that beached at Cruickshank’s Corner in Port Adelaide, South Australia, at . It was previously located in Birkenhead, South Australia, Australia.. She was built in Midland, Ontario, Canada in 1945 as the Rockwing, then renamed Tapline 2 (1948–49) and Abqaiq 3 (1949-1954).
Falie is a 33.4-metre (110 ft) ketch that traded for many years in Australian waters. Originally built in 1919/1920 as a speculation by her builder, rigged as a schooner and named Hollands Trouw after the shipyard where she was built, she was purchased by the Spencer's Gulf Transport Company, renamed, and used for coastal trading in South Australia.
Horseshoe Bay was proclaimed a port in 1851, and the settlement above the bay was named Port Elliot in 1852 after Charles Elliot, the Governor of Bermuda who was a friend of the then Governor of South Australia, Sir Henry Young. The location had been previously known as Freeman's Knob; the aboriginal name for the area may have been "Witengangool".
Venus Bay (formerly Parkin) is a small tourist and fishing town sited on the bay of the same name, on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The town population numbers in the twenties for most of the year, but its numbers greatly increase during the summer holidays. At the 2006 census, Venus Bay had a population of 139. [3]