SS WARATAH {STEAMSHIP}
1909Watercolour ink and gouache on paper. Depicted is SS Waratah tied up starboard side to the Albany deep water Jetty taking on coal. Shown by the artist Claude Batelier, ready for departure with a coal hulk still alongside (see preliminary sketch) with the Waratah flying the Blue Peter signal, the ship making smoke.
She is seen here homeward bound in late January of 1909 (Monday Jan 25th 1909). This maiden voyage is the only ever completed by the SS Waratah.
Now sometimes referred to as 'Australia's Titanic', the later loss of the SS WARATAH, on only her second voyage, was one of the great maritime mysteries of the day.
Details
Details
C.J. BATELIER
This preliminary sketch and watercolour by Claude Batelier is one of the few surviving images of the ill-fated SS WARATAH ever captured, showing the vessel fully laden and in port.
Western Australia
Australia
Albany Historical Society Inc
Albany Historical Society Inc
Other items by BATELIER, Claude James
- SS RUNIC RUN AGROUND ON SANDBAR & SS MEDIC {STEAMSHIPS} PULLING SHIP OFF
- BATELIER SKETCH OF HARBART UNDERGOING PROPELLER & RUDDER REPAIRS AT TOWN JETTY, ALBANY
- TOWN JETTY, ALBANY
- GRAND PRIX CYCLE RACE COMING UP PARADE ST HILL
- HMS PROMETHIUS {WARSHIP} & HMS PEGASUS {WARSHIP}
- ALBANY TOURIST TROPHY GRAND PRIX 1936, CAR COMING DOWN PARADE ST
- HMS TAURANGA {WARSHIP} WITH STEAM TUG THE BRUCE {STEAM TUG}
- SS SUEVIC {STEAMSHIP} & THE BRUCE {STEAM TUG}
- HM SHIPS POWERFUL, CHALLENGER & ENCOUNTER
- MARINE DRIVE & KING GEORGE SOUND AT NIGHT
- SS GRANTALA {STEAMSHIP}
- HMAS ENCOUNTER {WARSHIP}
Other items from Albany Historical Society Inc
- SS LOTHRINGEN {STEAMSHIP} AT ALBANY DEEP WATER JETTY
- SS MOOLTAN {STEAMSHIP}
- SS DAWN {STEAMSHIP}
- STEAM DREDGER IN A STORM
- RUSSIAN NAVAL CRUISER PAMIAT AZONA {WARSHIP}
- STEAM DREDGE PREMIER
- JAPANESE WARSHIPS
- AROUND ABOUT ALBANY
- FIRST NATIONAL BANK
- NEW CLUB HOUSE, ALBANY BOWLING GREEN, ALBANY 1905
- BREWERY, ALBANY. 1887.
- ROYAL NAVY (BRITISH) BALTIC FLEET