South Australia

28.12.1836: British colony (separated from New South Wales)
24.10.1856: responsible government granted
06.07.1863-01.01.1911: the Northern Territory attached
01.01.1901: state in the Australian Commonwealth

Area: 1,043,514 km² (1863-1911: 2,464,482 km²)
Population: 185,000 (1870); 360,900 (1901); 1,531,300 (2008)
Capital: Adelaide
Official language: English

Coastline: ~3,700 km

Governor: R.Adm. Kevin John Scarce (08.08.2007)
Premier: Mike (Michael David) Rann (06.03.2002)
Minister for Police: Michael Wright (06.03.2002)

South Australian Naval Forces (1883-1911)

Personnel: 161 (1903), 219 (1908)

Naval Commandants:
1883-1893 Cdr. John Cotterell P. Walcot
1893-05.1900 Lt.Cdr. William Rooke Creswell
07.1900-1911 Cpt. Chapman James Clare

Ensigns

08.1870-03.1876

03.1876-01.1904

Since 01.1904

Map

Schooner

[1] teak built (John Edye design)
Bombay Dockyard, 82 bm, 18.3×5.6×2.4 m. Ordered 06.1847 for South Australian government.
 Australian 1849 fate unknown - transferred to Indian Marine?

Gunboat (classified as Small Cruiser)

[1] "Protector" class
Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. - Elswick, 921 t, 56.4×9.1×5.2 m, 1x 200mm, 5x 150mm, 5x Gatling, (+ 1890: 4x 46mm), 14 kt, 84 p.

 Protector 12.1882/12.1883/06.1884 #457 ® 1893, 09.1900-01.1901 n/u, 1911 , 04.1921 tender Cerberus, § 09.1924, lighter Protector, 1931 Sidney, h† 06.1943, b† 1944 Heron I.

Torpedo Boat

[1] 2nd Class TB (British "№64" class)
John I. Thornycroft & Co. - Chiswick, 13 t, 19.2×2.3×1 m, 170 ihp = 16 kt, 1x MG, 2x ST, 7 p.
№1 1883/12.1883/01.1884 #191 1905 ex- n/u 1911 , § 1910/12, # 1917

Survey Schooner

[1] "Beatrice" class
Newhaven, 99 t, 28.7×5.8×3.4 m.
 Beatrice 1860 1862 ex- n/u § 1881


South Australia Police (est. 28.04.1838),
South Australia Police Water Operations Unit

www.police.sa.gov.au

Commissioner (SAPOL): Malcolm Hyde (10.02.1997)
Bases: Adelaide, Glenelg
3 Police Patrol Boats

Details needed!

[1] 40' workboat
General Motors Holden - Birkenhead, 18 t, 12.2×3.5×1.5 m.
P.L.1  Archie Badenoch /11.1942 1946 ex- ... § 1978, 1987 museum cruise boat (extant)

[1] "William Fisk" class
Searle Boat Builders - Birkenhead, 4.8×1.8×0.4 m.
P.L.3  William Fisk /10.1947 § 1971, restored 2006

[1] "Warrendi" class
 Warrendi /11.1978 § 1990s

[1] "23' Shark Cat" type (7 m)
 Pedro Warman 1987 § 2007, 07.2008 n/u

1 "Investigator" class
35 t, 16 m.
PL 1  Investigator 1991

1 "Protector" class
 Protector ...

1 "Ron Jeffery" class
NoosaCat Australia Pty. Ltd. - Noosaville, 7.2×.×. m, 440 bhp.
 Ron Jeffery /01.2008

Governors:
12.1836-07.1838 John Hindmarsh
07.1838-10.1838 George Milner Stephen (acting)
10.1838-05.1841 George Gawler (acting)
05.1841-10.1845 George Grey
10.1845-08.1848 Frederick Holt Robe (acting)
08.1848-12.1854 Sir Henry Edward Fox Young
12.1854-06.1855 Boyle Travers Finniss (acting)
06.1855-03.1862 Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
03.1862-02.1868 Sir Dominick Daly
02.1868-02.1869 Francis Gilbert Hamley (acting)
02.1869-12.1872 Sir James Fergusson
06.1873-01.1877 Sir Anthony Musgrave
03.1877-05.1877 Sir William Wellington Cairns (acting)
10.1877-01.1883 Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois
02.1883-03.1889 Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson
04.1889-01.1895 Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, Earl of Kintore
10.1895-09.1898 Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
04.1899-02.1902 Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
07.1903-01.1909 Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte
03.1909-02.1914 Sir Day Hort Bosanquet

Chief Justices (acting during vacancy of governor):
07.1856-11.1861 Sir Charles Cooper
11.1861-03.1876 Sir Richard Davis Hanson
03.1876-01.1916 Sir (since 1905) Samuel James Way

Premiers:
10.1856-08.1857 Boyle Travers Finniss
08.1857-09.1857 John Baker
09.1857 Robert Richard Torrens
09.1857-05.1860 Richard Davis Hanson
05.1860-10.1861 Thomas Reynolds
10.1861-07.1863 George Marsden Waterhouse
07.1863 Francis Stacker Dutton
07.1863-08.1864 Henry Ayers
08.1864-03.1865 Arthur Blyth
03.1865-09.1865 Francis Stacker Dutton
09.1865-10.1865 Henry Ayers
10.1865-03.1866 John Hart
03.1866-05.1867 James Penn Boucaut
05.1867-09.1868 Henry Ayers
09.1868-10.1868 John Hart
10.1868-11.1868 Henry Ayers
11.1868-05.1870 Henry Bull Templar Strangways
05.1870-11.1871 John Hart
11.1871-01.1872 Arthur Blyth
01.1872-07.1873 Sir Henry Ayers
07.1873-06.1875 Arthur Blyth
06.1875-06.1876 James Penn Boucaut
06.1876-10.1877 John Colton
10.1877-09.1878 James Penn Boucaut
09.1878-06.1881 William Morgan
06.1881-06.1884 John Cox Bray
06.1884-06.1885 John Colton
06.1885-06.1887 John William Downer
06.1887-06.1889 Thomas Playford
06.1889-08.1890 John Alexander Cockburn
08.1890-06.1892 Thomas Playford
06.1892-10.1892 Frederick William Holder
10.1892-06.1893 Sir John William Downer
06.1893-12.1899 Charles Cameron Kingston
12.1899 Vaiben Louis Solomon
12.1899-05.1901 Frederick William Holder
05.1901-03.1905 John Greeley Jenkins
03.1905-07.1905 Richard Butler
07.1905-06.1909 Thomas Price
06.1909-06.1910 Archibald Henry Peake
06.1910-02.1912 John Verran

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