The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
AN UNIDENTIFIED BOY CADET FROM TRAINING SHIP HMAS TINGIRA. HMAS TINGIRA WAS ORIGINALLY ENGLISH SAILING VESSEL SOBRAON LAUNCHED IN 1866; IN 1891-01 SHE WAS SOLD TO THE NSW GOVERNMENT AND BECAME A NAUTICAL SCHOOL SHIP FOR DELINQUENT BOYS. IN 1911 THE SHIP WAS SOLD TO THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT TO BE USED AS A BOYS' TRAINING SHIP AND RENAMED HMAS TINGIRA. TINGIRA SERVED IN THIS ROLE FROM 1912 TO 1927-06-30 DURING WHICH TIME 3158 BOYS, BETWEEN 14 AND 16 YEARS OF AGE, RECEIVED THEIR INITIAL TRAINING BEFORE JOINING THE SEAGOING FLEET. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
SYDNEY, NSW. THE RAN TRAINING SHIP HMAS TINGIRA. TINGIRA (ORIGINALLY SAILING SHIP SOBRAON) WAS LAUNCHED IN SCOTLAND IN 1866 AND AFTER PLYING BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA WAS SOLD TO THE NSW GOVERNMEN
c. 1914. Studio portrait of Stanley Ernest Lotze, aged fifteen and a half years, wearing a cap with a tally band reading "HMAS Tingira". HMAS Tingira was originally an English sailing vessel, Sobraon.
Tingira at her moorings in Berry's Bay, probably in the 1930s. Tingira, the former clipper ship Sobraon, was built by Alexander Hall & Co of Aberdeen, Scotland. Launched in 1866 she was the largest c
HMAS Tingira moored at Rose Bay in Sydney Harbour. The Tingira was commissioned by the RAN on 25 April 1912 as a boys' training ship. Tingira was purchased by the Commonwealth of Australia from the
PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE CLIPPER SHIP SOBRAON WITH HER MASTS BARE, BEFORE HER SERVICE AS A NAUTICAL SCHOOL SHIP FOR THE NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT AND LATER COMMISSIONING INTO THE RAN AS THE BOYS TRAININ
PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE CLIPPER SHIP SOBRAON WITH SAILS SET, BEFORE HER SERVICE AS A NAUTICAL SCHOOL SHIP FOR THE NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT AND LATER COMMISSIONING INTO THE RAN AS THE BOYS TRAINING VES
