Port Adelaide - Ships and Shipping

Pilots

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Reminiscences of the daughter of the first pilot is in the Advertiser,
15 October 1936, page 22c.

Information on pilots is in the Register,
8 February 1840, page 4c,
14 September 1844, page 3a,
Southern Australian,
27 September 1844, page 3b,
SA Gazette & Mining Journal,
25 September 1847, page 3c.

"The Pilot Service at Port Adelaide" is in the Register on
11 April 1854, page 2e; also see
22 November 1854, page 2h,
4 February 1862, page 3c,
10 March 1862, page 3e.

Pilotage rates are listed in the Southern Australian,
12 August 1842, page 2d.

"The Port Pilots" is in the Register of
11 March 1862, page 2f; also see
8 April 1862, page 2h,
24 June 1862, page 3b,
2 December 1862, page 3c,
11 May 1863, page 3e,
10 October 1864, page 3d,
13 and 16 September 1865, pages 2b and 3c,
25 September 1866, page 2g,
12 October 1866, page 3b.

"Pilots and Captains" is in the Advertiser,
8 April 1868, page 2c; also see
31 July 1868, page 3e.

A sketch of the pilot station is in the Illustrated Adelaide Post,
17 March (May?) 1870, page 1.

"Pilot Wellsman" is in the Observer,
4 March 1871, page 7e.
An obituary of Thomas Wellsman is in the Register,
19 August 1876, page 5d.

Also see Register,
21 April 1868, page 3g,
5 September 1872, page 5a,
30 May 1873, page 5e.
Some of the hazards of the occupation are recounted by Samuel Germein in Parliamentary Paper
150/1872 - see Place Names - Germein, Port.

"The Pilot Service, by an Ancient Mariner" is in the Observer,
4 January 1873, page 15a; also see
3 May 1873, page 13c,
"The Adventures of a Pilot" on
31 May 1873, page 7d,
"Gulf Pilotage" on
5 September 1874, page 12d.

An editorial on the pilot service is in the Register on
26 February 1874, page 4f and
consequential comment is to be found on
2 and 3 March 1874, pages 6f-7a and 5a,
2 September 1874, page 5b,
Advertiser,
19 November 1874, page 2b.

"Liability of Pilots" is in the Observer,
17 February 1877, page 10g.

Also see Register,
8 January 1877, page 6c,
29 September 1877, page 5c,
13 December 1877, page 7c,
26 January 1878, page 5d,
6 August 1878, page 5c,
30 October 1878, page 5c,
7 April 1879, page 6f,
2 May 1879, page 4g,
4, 10, 12 and 16 July 1879, pages 6c, 6g, 7f and 6g,
27 April 1880, page 5c,
1 and 17 May 1880, pages 5b,
30 July 1880, page 7c.

A history of the pilots is in the Advertiser,
2 August 1880, page 4b; also see
16 February 1881, page 1d (supp.).

Also see Register,
2 October 1880, page 7d,
19 February 1881, page 5b,
10 and 30 June 1881, pages 6d and 5g,
30 September 1882 (supp.), page 2c,
14 October 1882, page 6f,
24 November 1882, page 5c,
26 and 31 January 1883, pages 6a and 1f (supp.),
5 and 9 February 1883, pages 1a (supp.) and 4e-6e,
26 May 1883, page 7c,
1, 2 and 11 June 1883, pages 4g, 5a-2b (supp.) and 7c,
12, 16 and 19 November 1883, pages 5a, 7g and 6f.

A sketch of a mail steamer "taking the pilot" is in the Pictorial Australian
in July 1884, page 101.

Also see Register,
14, 15 and 24 March 1884, pages 2a (supp.), 4e and 6b,
8 and 26 April 1884, pages 5f and 5a,
20 May 1884, page 5a,
9 and 10 March 1885, pages 7h and 4g,
1 April 1885, page 6,
30 April 1886, page 5d,
10 January 1887, page 5c,
7 July 1888, page 5a,
24 August 1888, page 6g,
6 April 1889, page 5a,
29 August 1889, page 4h,
11 September 1889, page 4g.

The pros and cons of compulsory pilotage are traversed in the Advertiser,
24 and 30 May 1890, pages 6f and 6g,
19 and 24 June 1890, pages 7a and 6e.

Also see Register,
10 and 23 May 1890, pages 5a and 6h,
4 August 1890, page 5b,
2 February 1892, page 5c,
2 and 16 August 1892, pages 5c and 5b,
26 and 30 August 1892, pages 5c and 6g,
6 and 20 September 1892, pages 7d and 4g,
21 October 1892, page 7d,
19 November 1892, page 6h.

"The Death of an Old Pilot", John Taylor, is reported in the Register,
14 February 1893, page 5c,
Observer,
18 February 1893, page 29e.

Also see Register,
3 February 1893, page 5d,
14 February 1893, page 5c,
19 July 1893, page 4f,
16 March 1894, page 3g,
28 September 1894, page 6g,
7 February 1896, page 7f,
12 February 1897, page 7h,
5 March 1897, page 3e,
14 May 1897, page 5b,
15 October 1898, pages 4g-9g,
27 October 1898, page 5a.

Biographical details of a pilot, Marshall Smith, are in the Observer,
30 July 1898, page 16a.

Also see Register,
6 and 9 January 1899, pages 7f and 7h,
5 May 1899, page 5b,
28 and 31 July 1899, pages 6h and 4g,
11, 14, 18 and 25 August 1899, pages 6e, 7f, 3g and 4i,
5, 7, 8, 13 and 16 September 1899, pages 3h, 4h, 6h, 4f and 9b,
20 October 1899, page 4i,
3 and 17 November 1899, pages 3i and 5a.

Information on Pilot Boord is in the Observer,
1 April 1899, page 25d,
Register,
2 May 1907, page 5a;
an obituary of Captain A.F. Boord appears on
25 July 1925, page 37d.

Biographical details of W.H. Carter, pilot, is in the Register,
28 October 1899, page 11b.

Also see Register,
23 March 1900, page 2f,
28 April 1900, page 10f,
11 May 1900, page 5a,
19 July 1901, page 4h,
27 March 1903, page 6g,
31 March 1903, page 9b,
1, 8, 24 and 28 April 1903, pages 4g, 9e, 3h and 4e,
26 May 1903, page 4g,
5 June 1903, page 4e,
14 August 1903, page 5d,
4 and 8 February 1904, pages 4h and 4f,
12 November 1904, page 6h.

Biographical details of Pilot T.M. Allen are in the Register,
5 July 1901, page 6d.

"A Lucrative Profession" is in the Express,
27 March 1903, page 4d.

An obituary of Pilot H.W. Harris is in the Register,
5 September 1903, page 7b.

Also see Register,
7 November 1905, page 4i,
2 June 1906, page 4e (statement by ex-pilot Ellis),
3 May 1907, page 5a,
13 and 18 June 1907, pages 4d and 9e,
5 July 1907, page 4f-g,
9 and 21 August 1907, pages 4i and 8d,
12 February 1908, page 9c,
3 October 1908, page 11c,
23 June 1909, page 6f,
4 February 1910, page 6c,
6 June 1913, page 12f,
20 July 1928, page 13a.

"Wharf Company v Pilot" is in the Register,
23 and 24 July 1908, pages 9f and 3f,
6 August 1908, page 9c.

The reminiscences of William Muir are in The News,
18 January 1927, page 4f.

The obituary of Captain Dickson, pilot, is in the Observer,
4 July 1914, page 53a,
of Captain P. Dickson on
22 May 1915, page 25b,
Thomas B. Richardson - "25 Years a Pilot" is in the Register,
17 July 1928, page 12e.

"When the Pilot Takes the Helm" is in The Mail,
2 May 1936, page 4.

"New Diesel Pilot Launch" is in the Advertiser,
5 July 1937, page 14d.

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