Aubrey Hall, Cossack lightering service

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https://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/sites/default/files/no._297_cossack_ma_survey_2012.pdf

Noblet (1968:12) describes shipping in Cossack around the 1920s as involving ‘lightering on a large scale’, with lighter-men making up the majority of Cossack’s workforce. Lighters ranged from small wooden sailing ketches and luggers between 12 and 60 tons, to auxiliary-engined schooners up to 300 tons. The first steam lighters in Cossack were the SS Beagle and SS Croydon that arrived in the 1890s (Thompson n.d.: 7). Table 1 lists some of Cossack’s better known lighters. The Beagle was operated by an agency for the Blue Funnel Line and ‘another company which ran a combined service to and from Singapore and Fremantle’, owned by Mr George Tee and later Mr Harding, while the operations of the Adelaide Steamship Company’s lighter Croydon was run by Mr Aubrey Hall (Thompson n.d.: 34-35)

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• (citation from above report) Thompson, E., n.d., A history of Cossack, The Roebourne District Youth Club, Roebourne, W.A.

Open:

• A History of Cossack / compiled by the Roebourne District Youth Club. https://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1367137~S2 Cossack 1863-1887 -- Cossack, 1890-1900 : reminiscences of Mr W.A. Thompson 994.13/COS, 3rd Floor.
• Collection of photographs of Cossack and residents. https://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2539576~S2 Groups of residents, Andrew S. Thompson (shipwright), government buildings, school, post office, wharf, houses, steamer, tramway.
• first year in the north west, Paul hasluck.

To request:

• Chris Thompson papers [manuscript] https://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1931073~S2 Reminiscences of Cossack, written for the author' s children and grandchildren. Typescript, 17p.
• Notes on the history of Cossack, 1956 [manuscript]. ACC 6707A, 4th Floor Stack https://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2381164~S2 Christopher Thompson was born in Cossack in 1885 to Andrew Stonehouse Thompson and Annie Thompson (nee Cave). He married Eleanor Down in Fremantle in 1908 and died on 16 January 1974. Reminiscences of growing up in Cossack in the 1890s.
• Letter, 1947 July 31 [manuscript], ACC 1244A, Son of Northwest pioneer William Shakespeare Hall, with pastoral and pearling interest at Cossack. Extracts from a letter written to his daughter H. Margaret Wilson. https://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1907787~S2

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Letter done: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117792350

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History of Cossack sort of done: https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfCossack

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Chris Thompson papers [manuscript]: https://archive.org/details/ChrisThompsonMemoir https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/155014105

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https://archive.org/details/first-year-in-the-north-west-by-paul-hasluck-1928