construction, built by Dobie & Co.Glasgow, for Devitt & Moore. Designed as a cargo carrier
at a time when the passenger trade was moving to the steamers. She was put in the Sydney
trade for the carriage of wool. She made fifteen voyages to Australia. In the first two she was
unable to obtain a wool cargo and carried coal to San Francisco and grain from there to Britain.
After that she either carried wool or grain on return journey from Australia. Basil Lubock has
her listed in the wool fleet from Sydney in 1885/6, 1886/7, and 1887/8 and again in 1889/90. In
1899, after HESPERUS was sold, ILLAWARRA took over as a cadet training ship, and her
destination was changed from Sydney to Melbourne. Her cargoes back were usually wool or
grain. In 1907, she was sold to Norwegian owners. In 1912, on a voyage from Leith to
Valparaiso, she was abandoned off the Irish coast leaking badly after a storm. The crew were
picked up by a steamer.
MEDWAY (1902 - ), a four masted barque, tonnage 2511tons gross 2,298 net, length 300ft,
beam 43ft 2 in, depth 24ft 6in. Constructed of steel, built by A. McMillan & Son, Dumbarton
for Uruguayan owners and named AMA BEGONAKOA. She was designed as a cadet traingship.
In 1910, she was purchased by Devitt & Moore's Ocean Training Ships Ltd and renamed
MEDWAY. Up to World War I, she was in the Sydney trade carrying general cargo out and
wool or grain back,
