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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Gange Ship
Ganges Ship
General Hewitt Ship
Geordy Ship
George Peat's ferry Ferry
Getting off at Redfern Saying
GH Magazine Magazine or periodical
Gibbs, Shallard & Co Illustrated Guide to Sydney Book
Giornale Italiano Newspaper
Glen Isla Ship
Goffredo Mameli Ship
Golden Grove Ship
Golden Grove ferry Ferry
Golden Water Mouth Tree Sculpture
Gone to Gowings Saying
Gorizont Newspaper
Governor Blackall Ship
Greek Herald Newspaper
Grenada Ship
Gretel Ship
Grit Magazine or periodical
Guildford Ship
Gumbery jah (Harry's song) Musical composition
Guns 'n' Rosé Book
H Desbrowe Annear c1921 Painting
Hail! Men of America, Hail! Song
Hannah and Sally Ship
Harrington Ship
Hashemy Ship
Heads of a Plan proposal 1786 Report or plan
Heart's Desire Song
Heatwave Film
Hell Has Harbour Views Film
Henrietta Ship
Hercules Ship
Hereward Ship
Heritage Act 1977 Legislation
Hermes Magazine or periodical
Hero Ship
Hillsborough Ship
Historical Atlas of Sydney Website
HMAS Adelaide Ship
HMAS Albatross Ship
HMAS Australia II Ship
HMAS Biloela Ship
HMAS Kuttabul FerryShip
HMAS Melbourne Ship
HMAS Stalwart II Ship
HMAS Success Ship
HMAS Supply Ship

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Gange

Ship that arrived in 1916 with 208 British subjects from Malta who were refused entry after being subjected to a dictation test in Dutch. After deportation and intervention from Governor Strickland, they were allowed to return to Sydney.

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Ship

Ganges

East India Company ship of 700 tons, used to transport convicts. It was one of the first convict ships inspected at Portsmouth by Sir James Fitzpatrick, surgeon-general of the Home Office.

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General Hewitt

Convict ship of 960 tons. It had a high mortality rate on its 1813-14 voyage, with 34 deaths out of 300 convicts embarked.

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Geordy

Ship whose keel was laid by Andrew Thompson on Scotland Island shortly before his death and launched on Nov 24 1810.

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George Peat's ferry

Punt used by George Peat in the 1840s to allow travel across the Hawkesbury to Kangaroo Point.

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Ferry

Getting off at Redfern

Colloquial expression pertaining to contraception.

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Saying

GH Magazine

Good housekeeping magazine published by Australian Consolidated Press.

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Magazine or periodical

Gibbs, Shallard & Co Illustrated Guide to Sydney

Guidebook to Sydney and its suburbs and to favourite places of resort in New South Wales.

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Book

Giornale Italiano

Italian weekly newspaper published between 1932 and 1942.

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Newspaper

Glen Isla

Sailing ship of 1067 tons.

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Goffredo Mameli

Italian trading ship, named for the Italian poet and patriot, which sailed from Genoa in 1855.

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Golden Grove

Store ship of the First Fleet which carried 22 crew and 4 passengers and tools to enable settlement in the new colony. Anvils, axes, tents, flour, chickens and Reverend Johnson's cats were amongst the varied cargo.

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Golden Grove ferry

Sydney harbour ferry which entered service in 1986.

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Golden Water Mouth Tree

Sculpture created by Lin Li from a dead Yellow Box tree with 23 carat gold leaf and terracotta tile to mark the entry to the symbolic village of Chinatown. This artwork incorporates Shui Kou elements of wood, water, earth and gold together with native Australian species. It evokes memories of the Chinese arrival in Australia—the ”New Gold Mountain.

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Sculpture

Gone to Gowings

Advertising slogan of Gowings, one of Sydney's oldest clothing retailers.

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Gorizont

Russian language newspaper published weekly since 1993.

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Governor Blackall

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500-ton ship with machinery designed by Norman Selfe.

Greek Herald

Greek language newspaper.

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Grenada

Transport of 450 tons which brought convicts to New South Wales in 1819, 1821, 1825 and 1827.

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Gretel

Halvorsen-built yacht which was the first Australian entry in the America's Cup.

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Grit

Journal promoting temperance published by the New South Wales Temperance Alliance.

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Guildford

Convict ship of 521 tons which made eight voyages to Australia between 1812 and 1829 carrying over 1500 male convicts.

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Gumbery jah (Harry's song)

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Aboriginal chant or song performed by Corrangie (Harry) between 1820 and 1823 and transcribed by Judge Barron Field. It was first published in 1823 when The London Magazine published Field's article ‘Journal of an excursion across the Blue Mountains of New South Wales’ and again in 1825 in Fields' Geographic Memoirs of New South Wales. The work was performed by Matthew Doyle and Clarence Slockee and recorded by Kevin Hunt Conservatorium of Music in 2010.

Musical composition

Guns 'n' Rosé

Crime novel set in Terrigal on the New South Wales central coast.

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H Desbrowe Annear c1921

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Portrait by William Beckwith McInnes of Melbourne architect Harold Desbrowe Annear which won the first Archibald Prize in 1921.

Painting

Hail! Men of America, Hail!

Song written by Hugo Alpen to welcome the American Fleet in 1908 with words by Roderick Quinn.

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Song

Hannah and Sally

Brig or sailing ship involved in trade with early Sydney.

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Harrington

13 gun, 182 ton brig owned and captained by William Douglas Campbell. On 16 May 1808 it was stolen by 20-30 escaping convicts who sailed it to Manila Bay.

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Hashemy

Convict ship of 638 tons which experienced a cholera outbreak on its 1849 voyage.

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Heads of a Plan proposal 1786

Proposal for the establishment of a colony at Botany Bay written in 1786.

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Report or plan

Heart's Desire

Song written by Haydn Wood with words by Anthony Mainwaring.

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Heatwave

Film directed by Phillip Noyce in 1982 starring Judy Davis.

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Film

Hell Has Harbour Views

Television mini-series of 2005 written and directed by Peter Duncan.

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Henrietta

Schooner which visited Sydney in 1813.

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Hercules

Irish convict ship which carried 173 male and female convicts to the colony in 1802.

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Hereward

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Iron clipper of 1513 tons which traded between Britain and the colonies and was wrecked on the northern end of Maroubra Beach in 1898 though all 25 crew survived. The wreckage remained on the beach for several decades.

Heritage Act 1977

Legislation to conserve the environmental heritage of the State.

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Legislation

Hermes

Undergraduate students' literary magazine at the University of Sydney, published since 1886.

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Hero

Tugboat which was a regular sight on the harbour for almost fifty years until sunk by a freighter off Blues Point. It was salvaged and returned to service between 1943 and 1963.

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Hillsborough

Convict transport on which 95 convicts died en route to Sydney in 1799.

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Historical Atlas of Sydney

The Historical Atlas of Sydney contains digital versions of maps and associated documents from the collections of the City of Sydney's Archives.

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Website

HMAS Adelaide

Cruiser of 5500 tons commissioned at Cockatoo Island in 1922 and decommissioned in 1946.

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HMAS Albatross

Carrier commissioned at Cockatoo Island in 1929. After being decommissioned in 1933 the ship became a repair vessel for the Royal Navy, playing a vital role in the Allied invasion of Normandy. By 1948 it had been converted to a passenger vessel and in 1949 reached Sydney with 1000 displaced persons. It was finally scrapped in Hong Kong in 1954.

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HMAS Australia II

Cruiser of 10,000 tons constructed in Scotland which saw service in European and Pacific waters during World War II and was eventually sold for scrap and broken up in England in 1956.

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HMAS Biloela

Fleet collier constructed at Cockatoo Island, the first ship built entirely of Australian materials to an Australian design. After being decommissioned in 1927 the ship was sold and eventually sunk by submarine off Scotland in 1940.

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HMAS Kuttabul

Ferry which had been requisitioned by the navy and was sunk at Garden Island by a torpedo fired from a Japanese midget submarine on 1 June, 1942.

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HMAS Melbourne

Majestic class aircraft carrier involved in a collision with HMAS Voyager II in 1964.

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HMAS Stalwart II

Destroyer tender of 15,500 tons used as a maintenance ship, training vessel and as a support vessel after Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1975. It was decommissioned and sold in 1990.

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HMAS Success

Replenishment ship launched in 1984, it is the largest ship built for the Royal Australian navy and the largest ever built at Cockatoo Island.

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HMAS Supply

Tide-class replenishment oiler to the Royal Australian Navy.

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