TimelineNSW:Ports, wharves, jetties & maritime facilities
{{DISPLAYTITLE:NSW Engineering Timeline: Ports, Wharves, Jetties & Maritime Facilities
| Pre 1788 | 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 | |
| Ports, wharves, jetties & maritime facilities | Government Wharf Sydney Cove, 1788. Hospital Wharf Sydney Cove, 1788. The King’s Dockyard, 1796. Underwood’s shipyard, 1798. |
First shipment of Newcastle coal, 1801. Market Street Wharf Cockle Bay, 1811. Macquarie Pier, Newcastle Harbour, 1818. Macquarie lighthouse, 1818. |
Circular Quay seawall, 1837-1844. William the Fourth paddle-wheeler, built at Clarence Town 1831 – first ocean-going steamer. |
Fort Denison, 1841-1857. Initial basin and pier, Wollongong Harbour, 1844. First dredging of Hunter River, 1845. Hunter River Steam Navigation Company shipyard in Darling Harbour, 1846. Cuthbert’s shipyard, 1849. First dry dock - Waterview Bay Dry Dock Coy, 1855. Fitzroy graving dock completed, 1857. Moriarty’s plan for Newcastle Harbour approved by Legislative Council, 1858. |
Eden Wharf, 1860. Tathra Wharf, 1862. Garden Island naval base, 1866 Fitzroy Dock, Cockatoo Island, 1847-1857. Steam cranes Queen’s Wharf, Newcastle, 1863. Belmore Basin, Wollongong Harbour, 1868. Iron Wharf, Cockle Bay, 1874. Newcastle southern breakwater commenced, 1875. Hydraulic crane, Dyke wharves, Newcastle, 1879. |
Open-sea jetty, Kembla Bay, 1883. Start Richmond River entrance improvements, 1889. Start Clarence River entrance works, c.1890. Trial Bay breakwater commenced, 1889. Sutherland Dock completed, 1890. Open ocean jetties, Woolgoolga & Coffs Harbour, 1892. Newcastle entrance channel deepened to 25ft, 1892 Port Kembla Harbour Act, 1898. Woolwich Dry Dock, 1898-1901. | |
| 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 | 2000-2019 | |
| Ports, wharves, jetties & maritime facilities | Merimbula Wharf, 1903. Riley’s Hill Dock, Richmond River, 1903. Sydney Harbour Trust, 1901. Port Kembla breakwaters, 1901-1937. Woolloomooloo finger wharf, 1910-13. Coffs Harbour breakwaters commenced, 1912. Redevelopment of wharfage - Walsh Bay, Darling Harbour & Pyrmont, 1912-25. Walsh Island Dockyard, 1913-1933. No. 1 Coal loading jetty, Port Kembla, 1915. Balls Head coal loader, 1917-20. Glebe Island grain terminal, 1918-22. 150 ton Titan floating crane, 1919. |
Coffs Harbour northern breakwater completed, 1924. Major reclamation of head of Darling Harbour, 1926. Wollongong Head lighthouse, 1937. Coffs Harbour southern breakwater completed, 1939. |
Captain Cook graving dock, 1941-44. State Dockyard, Newcastle, 1942-1987. Hammerhead crane Garden Island, 1951. Hunter River Island Reclamation Scheme, 1953-61. Dredging Inner Harbour, Port Kembla, 1956-1962. |
Port Kembla inner harbour, 1960. Sydney Cove Passenger Terminal, 1960. Newcastle Harbour deepening to 11m. Port Kembla coal loader, 1964. No. 1 Coal Berth Port Kembla opened, 1964. Basin coal Loader, Newcastle, 1967. Dredging commenced for Port Botany, 1969. Newcastle grain terminal, 1970. Clarence River northern & southern breakwaters completed, 1971. Glebe Island Container Terminal, 1973. Port Kembla major deepening, 1973-1975. Major Newcastle Development Scheme, 1977-83. Port Botany bulk liquids berth, 1979. Port Botany container terminal, 1979. |
No.2 Coal Berth Port Kembla opened, 1982. Kooragang Island Coal Terminal, 1984. Casting basin for Sydney Harbour tunnel units, 1987. Grain Terminal, Port Kembla, 1990. Australian Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour. |
White Bay Cruise Terminal 2013. Barangaroo development, Darling Harbour 2015. |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 |
