Balls Head Bay
Balls Head Bay, formerly known as Oyster Bay, Wollstonecraft Bay, Sugarworks Bay, Powder Works Bay and Kerosene Bay, is a bay located to the west of the Waverton Peninsula, west of Balls Head and to the east of Berry Island, on the north of Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The naval base HMAS Waterhen is located within the bay.[1]
Ships were broken up and burnt to the waterline in the bay. One such ship was the Lalla Rookh, which was broken up at Kerosene Bay in 1898 after it caught fire in November 1897. The Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database describes her as a 147-ton brig, 29.9 metres (98 ft) long.[2] (See Lalla Rookh (ship).)
See also
References
- "HMAS Waterhen". HMA Ship Histories. Sea Power Centre, Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- "View Shipwreck - Lalla Rookh". Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database. Australian Government. Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Retrieved 25 January 2021. (Creative Commons 4.0 International licence.)
Coastal bays and inlets of New South Wales, Australia | |
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