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    Mort's Dock is a former dry dock, slipway, and shipyard in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia. It was the first dry dock in Australia, opening for business...
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    welders using oxyacetylene torches on the respondent's timber wharf (Mort's Dock) at Sheerlegs Wharf fell on floating cotton waste which ignited the oil...
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  • Bay, Papua New Guinea Mort Street, Canberra, Australia Mort's Dock, a former dry dock, slipway and shipyard in Australia Mort (name), including a list...
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    freighter ship named the Wagon Mound which was taking on bunker oil at Mort's Dock in Sydney. The engineers on the Wagon Mound were careless and a large...
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    James McCallum in 1867 for the sum of A£295. By the mid-1860s, nearby Mort's Dock was undertaking heavy industrialisation of its site in Balmain and was...
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    In the 1850s, he opened Mort's Dock in Sydney, a business that was not as successful as he wished. In 1843, he established Mort & Company, in Sydney, and...
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    again in 1966, and sold for scrap in 1972. Gascoyne was laid down by Mort's Dock & Engineering Company, Sydney on 3 July 1942. She was launched on 20...
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    located near the entrance to Mort's Dock and in 1902, the Ship Painters and Dockers Union took up a 'moveable office' at 95 Mort Street, next to the Star...
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    until 1975 and was eventually scrapped in 1993. Lachlan was laid down by Mort's Dock & Engineering Company, Sydney on 22 March 1943 and launched on 25 March...
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    Industries clustered around Mort Bay included shipbuilding, a metal foundry, engineering, boilermaking and the Mort's Dock & Engineering Company works...
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  • October 1941. Sold by Hobsons Bay Dock and Engineering Co. to Seico Shipyard of Singapore in 1978. AD 1002, built by Mort's Dock & Engineering Company and completed...
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    South Wales Government Railways in Australia. The tenders were built by Mort's Dock & Engineering Company. The locomotives were among the heaviest of locomotives...
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  • vessels, trading and merchant ships, ferries, yachts (1890s – 1970) Mort's Dock (Sydney) (1855–1959) Norman R Wright & Sons (Brisbane) NQEA (Cairns,...
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  • overtime work. From 1908, a Sydney based engineering company called Mort's Dock became the subject of multiple overtime bans. They were imposed by employees...
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    in Sydney. He left school at thirteen, training as a boilermaker at Mort's Dock. McKell soon became involved with the union movement, and after a brief...
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    served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Macquarie was laid down by Mort's Dock & Engineering Company, Sydney, launched on 3 March 1945 and commissioned...
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    4 for the Royal Indian Navy. Lithgow was laid down by Morts Dock & Engineering Co at Mort's Dock in Balmain, New South Wales on 19 August 1940. She was...
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    vessels, and 4 for the Royal Indian Navy. Inverell was laid down by Mort's Dock & Engineering Co at Balmain, New South Wales on 7 December 1941. She...
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    was laid down by Mort's Dock and Engineering Company at Balmain, New South Wales on 27 January 1942. As the ship was built in a dock it was floated clear...
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    his former position as a draughtsman at Mort's Dock. Not long after returning to Sydney, Grant left Mort's Dock and moved to Lithgow, working as a labourer...
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    designed by Mort's Dock and Engineering, initially under the guidance of former chief draughtsman Andrew Christie. The first five were built at Mort's Woolwich...
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    designed by Mort's Dock and Engineering, initially under the guidance of former chief draughtsman Andrew Christie. The first five were built at Mort's Woolwich...
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    Queensland (7 ships), Evans Deakin & Company in Brisbane (11 ships), Mort's Dock & Engineering Company in Sydney (14 ships), Poole & Steel in Sydney (7...
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    down by Mort's Dock & Engineering Company, Sydney on 4 June 1940. The corvette was launched on 25 October 1940 by Lady King, wife of the Mort's Dock Chairman...
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    as Mort's Road, Mort's Hill, Mort's Crossing, Mort's Township and Mort Dale. The suburb was named after Sydney industrialist Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1816–1878)...
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    her sister vessels serving through to the 1970s and 1980s. Built by Mort's Dock and Engineering Co Ltd, in Woolwich, she was a double-ended screw steamer...
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  • centrifugal pumps discharged the fuel oil from the tanks. OFL No. 1, built by Mort's Dock under contract to Cockatoo Island Dockyard, laid down in 1913 and completed...
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    maritime industry which was concentrated in Waterview Bay and included Mort's Dock, West's Sail Loft, the UTA Ferry Workshops and Sydney Slipways. They...
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    ferries, the four of which remain in service.   She was built in 1886 by Mort's Dock and Engineering for the Port Jackson Steamship Company. An iron-hulled...
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    1888. 45 tons 23.8 m 1888 Leipoa 1872 Wooden paddle steamer. Built by Mort's Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd, Balmain. 19 hp steam engine by builder. H. Perdriau's...
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