The BHP Shipbuilding Gallery
The story of slag, nuts and bolts!
The shipyards that accommodated five building berths started production at the beginning of World War II. Between 1940 and 1978 the company built sixty six vessels – warships, carriers, tankers, ferries, container ships, barges and oil drilling floating platform. Some of them, especially at the early 1970s, were the largest commercial ships ever built in the Southern Hemisphere at that time.
List of ships:
HMAS Whyalla (1941), HMAS Kalgoorlie (1941), HMAS Pirie (1941), HMAS Gawler (1941), Iron Monarch (1942), Iron Duke (1943), River Glenelg (1943), River Murchison (1944), River Derwent (1944), River Murrumbidgee (1945), River Murray (1945), Barrigun (1947), Balaar (1948), Balook (1949), Baroota (1951), Delamere (1946), Dandenong (1946), Daylesford (1946), Iron Yampi (1947), Iron Kimberley (1949), Iron Derby (1950), Iron Wyndham (1952), Iron Whyalla (1953), Iron Spencer (1956), Iron Flinders (1959), Iron Dampier (1960), Yanderra (1954), Yarrunga (1954), Lake Eyre (1955), Lake Torrens (1957), Lake Illawarra (1957), Lake Macquarie (1958), Mount Keira (1959), Mount Kembla (1960), P. J. Adams (1962), Wollongong (1961), Mittagong (1962), Musgrave Range (1964), Gerringong (1965), Seaway Queen (1963), Seaway King (1964), darling River (1965), Bogong (1966), Ocean Digger (1967), Iron Hunter (1968), Yarra River (1970), Cellana (1968), Kanimbla (1968), Manoora (1969), Clutha oceanic (1969), Amanda Miller (1971), Mobil Australis (1971), Clutha Capricorn (1972), W. M. Leonard (1972), Iron Monarch (1973), Iron Duke (1973), Zincmaster (1975), Union Rotorua (1976), Union Rotoiti (1976), Arthur Phillip (1974), Seaway Prince (1974), Seaway Princess (1975), Iron Carpentaria (1977), Iron Curtis (1978), John Sainsbury (1978), Denis O’Malley (1978).
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