page_title: SS Kuring-gai
section_title: Design and construction
hierarchical_section_title: SS Kuring-gai / Design and construction
caption_attribution_description: English: Manly Ferry Kuringgai on Sydney Harbour still relatively new
context_page_description: SS Kuring-gai was a ferry that served on the Sydney to Manly run from 1901 to 1928.
  An iron framed, steel-plated double-ended screw ferry, it was the archetype of the familiar Manly ferry shape of the 20th century.
  The name "Kuringai" is an ethnonym referring to indigenous Australian peoples from between the Gamilaraay and Sydney
context_section_description: Kuring-gai was ordered by the Port Jackson Co-operative Steamship Co. Ltd, which became the Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company. The vessel was designed by renowned naval architect, Walter Reeks and was a development of Reeks' previous Manly ferry, the wooden Manly. Kuring-gai's wheelhouses were located immediately adjacent either side of her single funnel. She was the first Manly ferry to have gangway exits on both upper and lower decks. The subsequent Binngarra-type of vessels were larger versions of Kuring-gai but with wheel houses at the far ends of the upper deck. 
  Her basic design was emulated on eleven ferries that formed the twentieth century fleet of Manly ferries; namely the Binngarra-type ferries, the two Dee Why-class ferries and the South Steyne. This layout is also seen in the four current Freshwater-class ferries introduced in the 1980s and still operating.
  Kuring-gai was built in 1901 at Mort's Dock and Engineering in Balmain. Her triple expansion steam engines, also supplied by Mort's Dock, generated 85 hp. She reached 15.66 knots on her trials on 28 April 1901.
caption: Manly Ferry Kuring-gai near new c. 1910
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