Your father had a great memory Anne. I loved reading the newspaper reports. I must admit I had to to check your map for Port Victoria as I was not familiar with it.
I did not realise that grain was still being transported from Australia to Europe in Windjammers in the 1940's! I have so much to learn. My maternal great great-grandparents (Hannah and Robert Evans) arrived at Port Adelaide from Wales on board the 'Morning Star" in 1863. He worked as a copper smelter at Wallaroo, however the family ended up in Lithgow
NSW at some point. I am still digging into that history.
It seems it was still economic to use sailing ships from Australia to England but the issue was cargoes in the other direction. 1949 does seem late though.
Your father had a great memory Anne. I loved reading the newspaper reports. I must admit I had to to check your map for Port Victoria as I was not familiar with it.
I did not realise that grain was still being transported from Australia to Europe in Windjammers in the 1940's! I have so much to learn. My maternal great great-grandparents (Hannah and Robert Evans) arrived at Port Adelaide from Wales on board the 'Morning Star" in 1863. He worked as a copper smelter at Wallaroo, however the family ended up in Lithgow
NSW at some point. I am still digging into that history.
It seems it was still economic to use sailing ships from Australia to England but the issue was cargoes in the other direction. 1949 does seem late though.