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Pine Point Pioneers Memorial Print Page 

Memorial (also known as the "Annie Watt" Memorial) to pioneers, those who sailed the ketches, and clydesdale horses. It marks the centenary of the District of Muloowurtie 1874-1974.
The ketch was a two masted vessel typically about 70 -feet long. Ketches were often made from timber salvaged from larger vessels and many were built in Tasmania, where there was abundant timber and good shipwrights. When Yorke Peninsula was settled the ketches were the main means of transport and the South Australian and Tasmanian ketches were probably the first in the world to be fitted with a sliding centreboard which allowed them to come closer to shore in the shallow ports. They thus earned the nickname of "Stingray Disturbers". The ketches were the main means of transporting the grain grown on the Peninsula until the outbreak of the Second World War. When they were commandeered for service in the Pacific Islands, few returned to the Peninsula.
The last of the wooden ketches, the "Annie Watt" built in 1870, is now at the Maritime Museum in Birkenhead. In 1903 Mr J. F. Harvey, owner of the Thomas, Annie, Florence Maud, Malcolm and the Annie Watt, built five landings to make the loading of his fleet easier. Cargo was unloaded at the landings by horse and dray. By the 1920s only the Pine Point landing remained in use. In the 1920s the Harbours Board upgraded the wharf to enable better ship loading. They dredged berths and channels, erected a new shed and made a new cutting to the wharf. The channel leading out to open sea was painstakingly dredged by buckboard with two clydesdale horses pulling a scoop. In 1927 the wharf was upgraded to include a slide for bags from the clifftop to the ketches and the landing
Location
Address: | Main Coast Road, Cliff top, Pine Point, 5571 |
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State: | SA |
Area: | AUS |
GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -34.577678 Long: 137.878086 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
Monument Type: | Monument |
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Monument Theme: | Landscape |
Sub-Theme: | Settlement |
Dedication
Actual Monument Dedication Date: | Sunday 13th October, 1974 |
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A TRIBUTE TO THE PIONEERS OF THIS DISTRICT, THOSE WHO SAILED THE KETCHES. THAT FAITHFUL TOILER THE CLYDESDALE HORSE. ERECTED 13th OCTOBER 1974.