A shipwright in the colonies : John Cuthbert 1815-1874 : shipbuilder, ship-owner, merchant, entrepreneur, philanthropist / Roger Hobbs
- Bib ID:
- 7070780
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hobbs, Roger, 1945-, author
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Description:
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- [Kaleen, Australian Capital Territory] : Roger Hobbs, 2016
- ©2016
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some colour), maps, facsimiles, photographs ; 30 cm
- Summary:
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"Shipwright John Cuthbert (1815-1874), born in Cork, arrived in Sydney in 1834, setting up his first shipyard on a slip of land in Darling Harbour in 1853, at a time when local, inter-colonial and international shipping was developing rapidly. By the 1860s there were a number of ship and boat building yards in Sydney, including that of John Cuthbert at Millers Point, the most extensive in the harbour and considered to be the only one of any consequence in Sydney... The most successful side of Cuthbert's business was the surveying, overhauling, repairing and refitting of commercial vessels as well as naval ships of the Australian and Flying squadrons and foreign naval vessels, on well over 900 occasions. This was achieved through improved techniques and judicious leasing of patent slips and dry docks. The success of Cuthbert's enterprise provided continuity of employment for an average of 150 shipwrights, apprentices and other tradesmen, often as many as 300-400, and by the 1870s, in his own estimation, he had paid almost $500,000 in wages. Cuthbert also operated as agent, shipowner and merchant and was recognised as one of Sydney's most generous philanthropists."--Abstract.
- Notes:
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- Spiral binding.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Cuthbert, John, 1815-1874
- Boatbuilders -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Entrepreneurs -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Merchants -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Philanthropists -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Shipbuilding -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History -- 19th century
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- John Cuthbert 1815-1874 : shipbuilder, ship-owner, merchant, entrepreneur, philanthropist
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