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Seen on 8th February 2024, lying in her final resting place in the Garden Island Ships' Graveyard where she was abandoned in 1932.
The six-masted schooner DOROTHY H. STERLING (formerly the OREGON PINE) was built in 1920 by the Peninsular Shipping Company of Portland, Oregon, USA. A wooden hulled vessel of 2526 gross tons, she was 81.4 metres in length with a beam of 15.3 metres and a draught of 7.7 metres. The DOROTHY H. STERLING was a victim of the Great Depression. When she arrived in Port Adelaide in 1929 with a cargo of timber from the USA, unpaid harbour dues resulted in the schooner being seized and offered at auction. Bids did not reach the reserve and the vessel was eventually sold to a local shipbreaker. During the next three years the schooner was systematically dismantled in Port Adelaide, with parts of the vessel finding alternate uses. On 6th June 1932 the gutted hull was towed to the eastern end of the North Arm to become the largest vessel abandoned in the graveyard.
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