Vindicatrix Boy

The move of The Navigator, the memorial to the vessel SS Admella from St Vincent Street to the Queens Wharf end of Timpson Street, Port Adelaide, has been completed on schedule for special commemorations on Wednesday, August 5.
                                        
With its large ship’s wheel, longitude and latitude markers, compass points and a new black granite block, The Navigator will be unveiled at a candlelight vigil at 5.30 am — the time Admella departed from Port Adelaide on her ill-fated voyage 150 years ago.
 
She was last seen at Semaphore, where she picked up three more passengers and a fireman, making a total of 84 passengers and 29 crew, who were about to face a tragedy that rivalled the sinking of the Titanic. 

Over the next eight days, 89 people lost their lives, but miraculously 24 survived, most of them hanging on to the wreck in raging winter seas all that time.
 
The Navigator, sculptor Karen Genoff’s brilliant depiction of the tragic sinking of Admella at Carpenter Rocks, will be commemorated at 11 am on August 5 and many of Port Adelaide and Semaphore’s maritime families will be among the large crowd expected to attend the commemoration.
 
This major South Australian history project is the result an enormous amount of dedicated work by Karen Genoff, the Land Management Corporation (LMC), the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and contractors Seacon and Tillets.

Karen, seen here taking delivery of a 2.5-tonne black granite block for the memorial, has a diverse and widely acclaimed body of public art work across Australia.
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