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Son of William Barry
Charles arrived in South Australia on the Hesperus on 24/10/1878.
He was a ship Captain and served on several vessels trading around the coast of SA, and interstate. The known ships that he worked on were SS Warooka and SS Karratta.
Contributor: Jo-anne Overton (50757658)
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COURIER 20 May 1938
Captain C.J. Barry who died at the Semaphore on Saturday last, May 14th was born in Dover England eighty-eight years ago. He went to sea in the China Tea Clippers as a boy. He came to Australia in one of the Orient Line of sailing ships and arrived at Pt. Adelaide in the ship Herperus during 1878. For a while he was employed trading across the Tasman Sea. He served as a mate for a short period on the steamer Wakefield and in 1884 became Chief Officer of the s.s.Warooka holding that position for seventeen years. He had charge of the steamers James Comrie and Warrawee prior to being appointed skipper of the s.s. Karatta a position he held for fifteen years, retiring from the service of the Coast Steamships in 1925. His daughter [Sister Barry] and two sons served in the Great War. Another son was drowned when the sailing ship Loch Vennacher was lost with all hands in 1906 between West Bay and Cape Borda KI
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Suggested edit:
Son of William Barry
Charles arrived in South Australia on the Hesperus on 24/10/1878.
He was a ship Captain and served on several vessels trading around the coast of SA, and interstate. The known ships that he worked on were SS Warooka and SS Karratta.
Contributor: Jo-anne Overton (50757658)
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COURIER 20 May 1938
Captain C.J. Barry who died at the Semaphore on Saturday last, May 14th was born in Dover England eighty-eight years ago. He went to sea in the China Tea Clippers as a boy. He came to Australia in one of the Orient Line of sailing ships and arrived at Pt. Adelaide in the ship Herperus during 1878. For a while he was employed trading across the Tasman Sea. He served as a mate for a short period on the steamer Wakefield and in 1884 became Chief Officer of the s.s.Warooka holding that position for seventeen years. He had charge of the steamers James Comrie and Warrawee prior to being appointed skipper of the s.s. Karatta a position he held for fifteen years, retiring from the service of the Coast Steamships in 1925. His daughter [Sister Barry] and two sons served in the Great War. Another son was drowned when the sailing ship Loch Vennacher was lost with all hands in 1906 between West Bay and Cape Borda KI
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Suggested edit:
Son of William Barry
Charles arrived in South Australia on the Hesperus on 24/10/1878.
He was a ship Captain and served on several vessels trading around the coast of SA, and interstate. The known ships that he worked on were SS Warooka and SS Karratta.
Contributor: Jo-anne Overton (50757658)
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COURIER 20 May 1938
Captain C.J. Barry who died at the Semaphore on Saturday last, May 14th was born in Dover England eighty-eight years ago. He went to sea in the China Tea Clippers as a boy. He came to Australia in one of the Orient Line of sailing ships and arrived at Pt. Adelaide in the ship Herperus during 1878. For a while he was employed trading across the Tasman Sea. He served as a mate for a short period on the steamer Wakefield and in 1884 became Chief Officer of the s.s.Warooka holding that position for seventeen years. He had charge of the steamers James Comrie and Warrawee prior to being appointed skipper of the s.s. Karatta a position he held for fifteen years, retiring from the service of the Coast Steamships in 1925. His daughter [Sister Barry] and two sons served in the Great War. Another son was drowned when the sailing ship Loch Vennacher was lost with all hands in 1906 between West Bay and Cape Borda KI
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Suggested edit:
Son of William Barry
Charles arrived in South Australia on the Hesperus on 24/10/1878.
He was a ship Captain and served on several vessels trading around the coast of SA, and interstate. The known ships that he worked on were SS Warooka and SS Karratta.
Contributor: Jo-anne Overton (50757658)
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COURIER 20 May 1938
Captain C.J. Barry who died at the Semaphore on Saturday last, May 14th was born in Dover England eighty-eight years ago. He went to sea in the China Tea Clippers as a boy. He came to Australia in one of the Orient Line of sailing ships and arrived at Pt. Adelaide in the ship Herperus during 1878. For a while he was employed trading across the Tasman Sea. He served as a mate for a short period on the steamer Wakefield and in 1884 became Chief Officer of the s.s.Warooka holding that position for seventeen years. He had charge of the steamers James Comrie and Warrawee prior to being appointed skipper of the s.s. Karatta a position he held for fifteen years, retiring from the service of the Coast Steamships in 1925. His daughter [Sister Barry] and two sons served in the Great War. Another son was drowned when the sailing ship Loch Vennacher was lost with all hands in 1906 between West Bay and Cape Borda KI
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