Year
1862
Description
Four large lighters were prefabricated from 6 mm iron plates in England and were shipped, along with the necessary tools to assemble them, on the P&O sailing ship Haddington (1,459 tons), arriving at Albany from Southampton on the 4th December 1862.
The second lighter was launched on the 29th August 1863 by Miss Symers (probably one of the daughters of Captain Thomas Lyell Symers of Albany [1797-1884]) and named ‘Fremantle’. The last was launched in April 1864.
They were all eventually scuttled, broken up or covered by reclamation materials following P&O’s decision to close their coaling business in Albany in 1880.
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