Author: admin

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

SS Galileo Galilei was an 27,888 t ocean liner. On her maiden voyage in 1963 from Genoa, Italy she visited Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. She continued to operate the Italy-Australia run until April 1977. In 1983 she was sold and renamed simply Galileo. In 1990 she was sold again and renamed SS Meridian, operating cruises between the eastern United States and Bermuda. Finally in 1997 she was sold for the last time and renamed SS Sun Vista. She sank in the in the Strait of Malacca on 21 May 1999.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436302, Photographic material

See Full Post >>

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Lindeman Island was named by Captain Bedwell after his sub-lieutenant, George Sidney Lindeman whilst aboard the Royal Navy vessel HMS Virago during survey work of the Queensland coast in 1870.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436303, Photographic material

See Full Post >>

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Two Trans Australian Airlines Convair CV-240s at Brisbane Airport.

Australian National Airways (ANA) commenced an air service from Eagle Farm to Sydney in 1930. Eagle Farm was closed 31 January 1931 and civil air operations moved to Archerfield Airport.

Eagle Farm was taken over by the by the Royal Australian Air Force from 1940 until 1947. Ansett-ANA and Trans Australia Airlines moved their operations to Eagle Farm on 10 March 1947. Traffic began to outgrow the facilities by the late 1960s and Eagle Farm was finally replaced with the current Brisbane Airport in 1988.

Hangar No. 7, dating from the Second World War, was placed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 2005.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436308, Photographic material

See Full Post >>