I took this post’s photos in March 2024.
The pictured vessel was launched in 1856.
It was the largest, the oldest, and – in 1945 – it was the last of many vessels abandoned in Port Adelaide’s ships’ graveyards.
On the 12th day of January 2023 its iron hull collapsed, more than 166 years after its construction, and after nearly 78 years spent embedded in silt, on the mangrove-rimmed North Arm of the Port River.
(the hull’s front section is now upside down, as you can see in this post’s images)
Until 12 January 2023, that hull was probably “our” planet’s last intact example of its rare kind.
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