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Phantom at Dawes Point
PS Phantom was the first regular Manly ferry. She was built in Melbourne in 1859 and steamed to Sydney in May that year. She started the Manly ferry tradition of double-ended design and white funnels with a black top. She also had a dark green hull however the other vessels had black hulls until the bottle green colour was introduced with Dee Why and Curl Curl in 1928.
The white funnel with black tip appeared on all Manly ferries until the 1990's. As steamer funnels tended to be originally all black to hide the soot stains, I would speculate that white funnels (with just black tops to hide the soot) were a early visibility device, particularly for fowl weather or large sea swells.
The two storey stone building in the centre of the photo is Customs House at Semi Circular Quay in its original form (some of these walls remain today within a much-expanded Customs House), and the warehouses at the far right of this picture still stand, now restaurants.
Phantom at Dawes Point
PS Phantom was the first regular Manly ferry. She was built in Melbourne in 1859 and steamed to Sydney in May that year. She started the Manly ferry tradition of double-ended design and white funnels with a black top. She also had a dark green hull however the other vessels had black hulls until the bottle green colour was introduced with Dee Why and Curl Curl in 1928.
The white funnel with black tip appeared on all Manly ferries until the 1990's. As steamer funnels tended to be originally all black to hide the soot stains, I would speculate that white funnels (with just black tops to hide the soot) were a early visibility device, particularly for fowl weather or large sea swells.
The two storey stone building in the centre of the photo is Customs House at Semi Circular Quay in its original form (some of these walls remain today within a much-expanded Customs House), and the warehouses at the far right of this picture still stand, now restaurants.