My wife and I currently in Sydney, visiting our middle son's family (and helping our daughter-in-law with the 3 boys) while our son is in the USA on business. This morning I jumped on a train and went into the city for a look round, it's about 5 years since I have been in the CBD, so I thought it was time to go again.
I went down to the maritime museum and took some photos of the various ships on outside display, some of which are below. The destroyer is HMAS Vampire, a Daring class, the submarine is HMAS Onslow, an Oberon class, the patrol boat is an Attack class, HMAS Advance, and the small boat is the Krait. The Krait, a humble fishing trawler led a double life during World War II. In 1941, in Singapore, it evacuated people to Sumatra during the Japanese advance. Renamed Krait (after a deadly Indian snake), the boat was fitted out in Australia for Operation Jaywick in 1943. Perfectly disguised as a local fishing vessel, Krait sailed boldly into Japanese-occupied waters with a team of Z Special Unit commandos whose mines blew up and severely damaged seven enemy ships in Singapore harbour.
The replica Endeavour is also part of the museum fleet, and was being berthed by 2 tugs while I was there. I also saw and photographed Endeavour in 1997 at Greenwich, London, when it was on a world tour. The 3 masted steel hulled barque James Craig was built in 1874, has been fully restored and regularly sails on passenger carrying voyages.
The S.S. South Steyne is a 224' (70 metre) long steamship making it the world's largest operational steam ferry. Built in Leith, Scotland for the Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company, the South Steyne was launched on April 1st, 1938 and on July 7th 1938, it steamed the 22,000 kilometres to Australia arriving on September 19th the same year.
The South Steyne has been an icon of Sydney since 1938. As the famous Manly ferry, it crossed between Circular Quay and Manly over 100,000 times over its 36 years, carrying well in excess of 92 million passengers. It was retired from service in 1974, and after a chequered post ferry career, is now a floating restaurant.
I hope the above is of some interest.
Peter.