P&O used the lighters to carry water, stores and coal to ships anchored in Princess Royal Harbour, Albany. In later years they may have been towed by tugs or launches. They had five or six separate holds.
P&O LIGHTERS 1863–
Steamer with lighters lying alongside, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection
Description
Four lighters; yawl rigged
Construction
Iron; 6mm plates
Size
Length: 76.0 ft (23.2 m) Beam: 18.0 ft (5.5 m) Draft: (10.0 ft (3.05 m) Tonnage: 140
Built
Prefabricated in England and assembled in Albany
Owner
P&O, then Armstrong & Waters and the Douglas family
Sunk
1. May 1928 2. About 1890 3. Unknown 4. Unknown
Location
1. Near Whale Head Rock, King George Sound 2. Abandoned in about 1890 at Whalers Beach, Frenchman Bay, near P&O’s water supply spring 3. Just to the east of the P&O coaling jetty 4. Unknown
Latitude/Longitude
(-, -)
Sinking
1. The last owner was Norman Pannet. He bought the lighter in 1925 and used it to pull up piles as the baths were demolished. In May 1928, at the end of its useful life, it was sunk with explosives.
Underwater
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