Townsville Harbour Board
The harbour is an artificial one and is enclosed between two stone breakwaters which afford complete protection for shipping. Revenue is produced by harbour dues, wharfage, rents and water sales.
This collection is a comprehensive coverage of the activities of the Harbour Board from 1918 to 1962. The collection was donated to the Delamothe Collection of North Queensland History and Literarue by the Townsville Harbour Board.
Archive Location: 2R, 403R
Series Listing
Collisons and minor casualties files, 1918 - 1956
Strandings, groundings and founderings files, 1918 - 1959
Pilot Station Building Files, 1938 - 1960
Port dues. Instruction and rulings, 1920 - 1960
Quarantine regulations, 1900 - 1944
Detailed Listing
Collisions and Minor Casualties files
| THB/1 | File contains details of the following enquiries
10/12/1918 – 12/6/1928 Collisions: Resolute
– Hopewell 10/12/1918; Talawa – Jetty
wharf 17/11/1920; Gartmore – Suction dredge H.A.M.
IV 2/12/1924: Arkaba – Innisfail 14/1/1927;
Changte – Jetty wharf 27/2/1928; Goondi –
Herbert 12/6/1928; Loss by fire: Nellbay 1/8/1925. Mss. 19p Typescript. 119p. In toto: 138p |
| THB/2 | Minor casualties 19/3/1918 – 18/6/1923. File contains reports of minor breakdowns, collisions with beacons, and wrecking of small private 14 owned vessels. Mss. 7p. Typescript. 27p. Into 34p. |
| THB/3 | Missing vessels 15/5/ 1918 – 3/6/1945. File contains reports of searches for overdue vessels, sinkings and fires. Mss. 10p. Typescript 72p. In toto 82p. |
| THB/4 | Collisions and minor casualties 4/4/1924 – 1/11/1933 for which no enquiry was held. File contains reports of incidental damage to fender piles when berthing and/or minor repairs to vessels en route to another port. Mss. 2p. Typescript. 45p. In toto 47p. |
| THB/5 | Collisions and minor casualties 28/10/1930 – 19/8/1938.
File contains details of the following enquiries: Nellore
– Alert 20/12/1932; Willesden – Orungal
16/9/1938 as well as inquiries into jetty collisions in Townsville,
Brisbane and Port Douglas by ships out of Townsville. Mss. 10p Typescript. 68p. In toto: 78p. |
| THB/6 | Collisions and minor casualties 24/3/1939 – 9/11/1951 File contains details of the following enquiries: Joseph Holt – Francis Lewis 30/1/1943; Marella – Charon 23/6/1945; Paluma – Maje Aljo 25/6/1947; Achener – Whileaway 4/11/1948; Ronronga – Empire Minotaur 19/9/1950, as well as enquiries into jetty collisions in Townsville. Mss. 13p. Typescript. 183p. In toto: 196p. |
| THB/7 | File contains preliminary and amended reported on the S.S. Rona’s collision with the jetty at Lucinda Point 24/6/1951. Mss. 5p. Typescript 17p. In toto: 22p. |
| THB/8 | Collisions and minor casualties 9/5/1956 –
19/8/1960. File contains details of the following enquiries: Port
Wyndham – Lalor 27/10/1953; Noora –
Paxie 10/8/1954; Edenbank – Lalor
30/6/1956; Canberra – Lalor 2/12/1956; Munkara
– Canopic 2/2/1957 as well as enquirires into jetty
collisions in Townsville and two letters re the whereabouts of the
Corahina, alleged to be operating an unlicensed radio transmitter.
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Strandings, Groundings, and Founderings files
| THB/9 | File contains details of the following
enquiries 27/2/1918 – 20/7/1920. |
| THB/10 | File contains details of the following enquiries 31/1/1921
– 17/10/1927. Groundings: Nellbay 26/1/1921; Lass O’Gowrie 16/9/1921, 7/10/1924 and 10/3/1925; Sealark 3/11/1921; Tarcoola 31/12/1922; Dinton 11/7/1925; Bopple 6/8/1926; Tully 1/9/1927. Mss. 14p. Typescript. 113p In toto: 127p. |
| THB/11 | 1 File contains details of the following enquiries 12/5/1924
– 25/9/1933 Standings: Junee 11/5/1924; Sunshine 10/2/1927; Hopewell 19/6/1927; Otira 27/2/1927; Konarra 1/8/1927; Kallatina 21/11/1927; Amy 24/9/1928; Innisfail 7/12/1928; Port Huon 24/71932; Poonber 6/7/1932; Ormiston 14/12/1932. Mss. 4p. Typescript. 30p. In toto: 34p. |
| THB/12 | File contains details of the following enquiries 25/9/1934
– 23/8/1938 Groundings: Dorothy 7/9/1934; Innisfail 27/2/1936; Poonbar 1/6/1937; Mangola 11/6/1937; Durham 9/8/1937; Marella 23/8/1937; Kooyong 25/8/1937; Koza 10/11/1937; Dalia 26/3/1938; J.A. Boyd 1/7/1938; Kintore 10/8/1938; Lindenbank 24/7/1937; Port Wyndham 8/8/1937. Standings: Tranton 8/7/1936: Mirrabook 4/9/1936; Mss. 2p. Typescript 64p In toto: 66p. |
| THB/13 | File contains details of the following enquiries
25/7/1939 – 10/10/1951 |
| THB/14 | File contains preliminary and amended reports on the grounding of the S.S. River Derwent 15/2/1947. Includes newspaper cutting extracted from the Sunday Mail 6/2/1942. Printed 1p. Typescript 35p. In toto: 36p. |
| THB/15 | File contains details of the following enquiries 22/1/1952
– 23/11/1955. Groundings: Manunda 22/1/1952; Ringfjell 6/1/1954; Townsville 14/5/1954; Looralya 21/3/1955; Kookaburra 1/9/1955; Philippine Merchant 6/12/1955. Stranding: Port Wyndham 11/10/1955. Casualties: Amin Rahamin accidentally killed 25/1/1954. Arafura – exploded and sank 6/9/1954. Mss. 2p. typescript. 34p. In toto 36p. |
| THB/16 | File contains details of the following enquiries
8/3/1956 – 25/11/1959. |
| THB/17 | Cottage No. 2 Coxswain’s residence
file contains correspondence re the removal of the cottage from Pilot
Hill to the Harbour Board Reserve 21/7/1938 and servicing of the cottage
to 10/1//1959. Mss. 5p. Typescript. 43p. In toto 48 p. |
| THB/18 | Cottage No. 6 Lightkeeper’s residence. File contains correspondence re the occupation and servicing of the cottage during the period 3/12/1936 – 17/8/1960. Mss. 9p. Typescript. 81p. In toto: 90p |
| THB/19 | Cottage No. 8. Inspector of Fisheries residence. File contains correspondence re the occupation, servicing and rate payments 4/7/1927 – 26/11/1959. Typescript. 27p. |
| THB/20 | Cottage No. 9 Inspector of Fisheries residence. File contains correspondence re the occupancy and damage to the property 8/3/1944 – 24/9/1952. Typescript. 6p. |
| THB/21 | File contains correspondence re the exchange of Reserve No. 149 (Flagstaff Hill) for Reserve No. 166 (Pilot Station Reserve) and the transfer of buildings, 22/12/1941 – 6/1/1956. Includes plan of Townsville Inner harbour with soundings taken 7/5/1942, Mss. 6p. Plan (Stencil) 1p. Typescript 78p. In toto: 85p. |
Port dues. Instructions and rulings
| THB/22 | File covers queries as to interstate and foreign port rate and/or pilotage, 2/6/1920 – 29/9/1959. Includes copy of Queensland Government Gazette No. 150, 14/11/1950 Act to amend the Port Dues Revision Act of 1882. Printed 4p. Typescript 33p. In toto: 37p. |
| THB/23 | File covers queries on both general Interstate and Intercolonial
trade limits and specific companies and/or vessels. Includes Queensland
Government Gazette No. 21, 16/1/1932, Proclamations
28 and 29. Mss. 2p. Printed 1p. Typescript 38p. In toto: 41p. |
| THB/24 | File contains correspondence relating to the carriage and definition of coastwise cargo, 11/1/1922 – 14/6/1939. Mss. 1p. Typescript. 23p. In toto: 24p. |
| THB/25 | File contains correspondence on exemption from pilotage dues for vessels, owned by John Burke Ltd., operating on a Queensland Government subsidised run. Mss. 1p. Typescript 29p. In toto: 30p. |
| THB/26 | File contains correspondence on the exercise of option to pay port or tonnage dues by foreign going vessels not carrying coastwise cargo, 5/2/1926 – 4/7/1960. Typescript. 20p. |
| THB/27 | File contains correspondence relating to the issue in advance of port dues certificates, 21/6/1922 – 9/6/1949. Typescript. 3p. |
| THB/28 | File contains instructions as to payments by small vessels trading outside and inside port limits. Typescript. 9p. |
| THB/29 | File contains semi-annual port rates 21/9/1955. Typescript. 1p. |
| THB/30 | File contains correspondence on quarantine regulations 29/6/1911 – 30/11/1944. Included are 6 blank Supplementary Health Report forms. Mss. 2p. Printed 6p. Typescript 53p. In toto: 61p. |
| THB31 | File contains section of the following Queensland
Government Gazettes: V. 73, N. 58 2/3/1900; N. 76, 21/3/1900; N. 123, 28/4/1900; N. 126, 5/5/1900; N. 145, 19/51900; N. 183, 30/6/1900 V. 75 N. 26, 23/1/1901, which contain regulations under the Queensland Health Acts. Printed. 15p. |
| THB/32 | The Port of Weipa – North Queensland. Facilities, services, port charges, By-Laws and regulation (revised) as at 25/10/1962. Also includes alteration to By-law No. 2, By-Law No. 3, which took effect 17/6/1964. Printed 27p. |
| THB/33 | Report of the Townsville Harbour Board 1/1/1933 – 31/12/1935. Illustrated. 19p. Printed. |
| THB/34 | 1965-66 Greetings card |
| THB/35 | 1974 THB by-laws and 1985 correspondence regarding town planning approvals |
| THB/36 | Leases between THB and: |
| THB/37 | 1983 - 1985 Roberts, Leu & North Solicitors correspondence file on THB regarding leases |
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