wooden sixty-miler Austral (157 tons), was fortunate to escape almost unharmed, after running aground on the Sow and Pigs Reef, in Sydney Harbour. In April 1924, laden with coal, foundered off Barrenjoey Head. One life was lost. The survivors rowed for six-hours to reach the shore. In 1924, in an incident involving two sixty-milers at The Basin, Belbowrie struck Audry D. amidship. Audrey D., in 1935, by then a lighter on Sydney Harbour, caught fire at her moorings in Snail Bay. In October 1924, the bow of the fully-laden Malachite struck the steel understructure of the eastern stationary part of the Glebe Island Bridge and her mast hit the superstructure; the ship was badly damaged and the bridge structure was displaced by two inches, resulting in the tram rails of the swing and stationary parts of the bridge no longer meeting.In May 1925, Wallsend, while on the wrong side of the channel, collided with the steamer Coombar in Sydney Harbour. In October 1925, Wallsend collided, yet again, with another sixty-miler, Bealiba, at night, off Nobbys Head at the entrance to the Hunter River; both vessels were damaged but were able to return to port. Galava, was involved in a collision with a schooner being towed by a tugboat, off the Heads, in 1920. She was damaged enough to need to return to Sydney, although the schooner and tug continued on their way to Newcastle. In 1924, she run aground at Cannae Point near the North Head Quarantine Station, while carrying coal bound for the nearby Manly Gasworks wharf; her crew managed to refloat her under her own power. Later, in 1927, en route from Catherine Hill Bay, she foundered off Terrigal, due to water entering the holds through hull plates in the bow; seven of her crew died. In September 1926, Stockrington headed up the Parramatta River toward Mortlake Gasworks and onto the course of a rowing race near Cabarita wharf. A catastrophe was narrowly averted when the first three scullers managed to pass just ahead of the ship's bow to complete their race. She collided with the wooden piers protecting the structure of the Gladesville Bridge in January 1927.In April 1927, grave fears were held for Stockrington, until she arrived in Sydney—her crew safe but in a state of exhaustion—after having taken 40-hours to complete the trip from Newcastle during a violent gale. In July 1928, the Malachite—a regular