Port Adelaide - Prince Alfred Sailors' Home
The hospitality or otherwise extended to seamen is the subject of an editorial in the Register of 8 July 1865, page 2c:
-
... Our natural advantages will be of no avail if the rude barrier of inhospitality
excludes any essential class of population... They deserve... a much more
kindly welcome than they have ever yet received from us.
A series of letters followed - see
25 July, page 3b;
1, 10 and 22 August, pages 2h, 3b and 3b.
Proposals for, and the creation of, a "Sailors' Home", are to be found in
the Express,
8 December 1867, page 2c,
16 January 1868, page 2c,
Chronicle,
28 December 1867, page 5c and
the Register in 1868 -
9, 12, 16, 17 and 18 January, pages 2h, 4c, 3a, 2h and 3d and 2d;
28 March and 4 April, pages 2e;
10 and 13 June, pages 2f and 2g;
13 and 18 July, pages 2g and 2d;
3 October, page 2e,
14 December, page 2g,
12 January 1869, page 2h,
18 February 1869, page 2h,
Express,
8 March 1869, page 3e.
A petition for a grant to erect a home is in Parliamentary Paper 81/1869-70, while the laying of the foundation stone by the Duke of Edinburgh is reported in the Register, 2 March 1869, page 3c.
Also see Register,
2 June 1870, page 5b and
8 December 1870, page 5b,
24 February 1871, page 5c,
11 March 1871, page 5e,
24 August 1871, page 3e,
17 October 1871, page 6e,
23 October 1871, page 5c.
The home is described in some detail on
9 November 1871, page 6c:
-
The foundations, resting upon the usual Port swamp, had special attention paid
to them, and the precaution will appear not unnecessary when we state that
since the superstructure has been raised they have sunk from 18 to 20 inches...
Also see Register,
1 February 1872 (supp.), page 11e,
17 September 1872, page 4d,
12 and 18 January 1875, pages 5d and 6d,
25 January 1876, page 7a,
31 January 1877, page 7c,
18 October 1877, page 5a and
Observer,
2 February 1878, page 11a,
Register,
23 October 1878, page 5b,
13 January 1880 (supp.), page 1a,
31 January 1880, page 6c,
30 June 1880, page 5a,
11 January 1881, page 6e,
1 February 1881, page 7c.
A sketch is in the Pictorial Australian in December 1875.
Also see Register,
2 February 1882, page 6b,
29 September 1883, pages 5a-6e (history of),
26 January 1884, page 6c,
12 February 1885, page 7e,
16 June 1885, page 5b,
4 August 1885, page 6g,
6 August 1885, page 6d,
26 January 1886, page 7g,
14 May 1886, page 5c,
5 June 1886, page 5c,
29 January 1887, page 6h,
9 February 1887, pages 4h-7f,
28 January 1888, page 6c,
7 February 1889, page 6g,
6 and 7 May 1889, pages 6f and 4e,
1, 2 and 4 July 1889, pages 5c, 7c and 7b.
Also see Register,
1 February 1890, page 5b,
6 February 1891, page 7d,
14 October 1891, page 6d,
1 February 1892, page 7c,
24 March 1892, page 7f,
1 June 1894, page 7d,
11 and 17 February 1897, pages 6e and 5d,
29 January 1898, page 10g,
21 January 1899, page 10c,
Weekly Herald,
11 March 1899, page 7b.
Also see Observer,
26 September 1903, page 42a (history of),
Register,
12 September 1903, page 9i (history of),
28 January 1904, page 6h,
30 September 1905, page 10h,
27 January 1909, page 4g,
21 May 1913, page 12f,
12 February 1919, page 3h,
15, 19 and 22 January 1924, pages 8f, 15h (sale of) and 4c,
1 February 1924, page 9h.
A history of the home, by A.T. Saunders, is in the Register,
31 October 1925, page 12g.
