Polly Woodside

Polly Woodside wani mashaya ne da aka gina a Belfast, mai mast uku, mai harsashi mai ƙarfe, wanda aka adana a Melbourne, Victoria (Ostiraliya), kuma shine babban abin da ke cikin yankin South Wharf. William J. Woodside ne ya fara gina jirgin a Belfast kuma an ƙaddamar da shi a shekarar 1885. Polly Woodside ya kasance kamar dubban ƙananan sandunan ƙarfe da aka gina a kwanakin ƙarshe na jirgin ruwa, waɗanda aka yi niyya don cinikin ruwa mai zurfi a duniya kuma an tsara su don a sarrafa su gwargwadon iko.

 Tafiye-tafiye 1885–1904 
An gina Polly Woodside a yankin ginin jiragen ruwa na Workman, Clark and Co, Queen's Island, Belfast a shekarar 1885, ga William J. Woodside da Co. An ƙaddamar da ita a ranar 7 ga Nuwamba, 1885; matar mai jirgin, Mrs Marian ("Polly") Woodside, wacce aka sanya wa jirgin suna bayanta, ta yi masa baftisma.[1] Polly Woodside, wacce Gilbert Yeates ke jagoranta, tana aiki a matsayin jirgin ruwa mai ɗaukar kaya da ke ɗauke da kwal, nitrate, da alkama tsakanin tashoshin jiragen ruwa na Burtaniya da tashoshin jiragen ruwa na Kudancin Amurka, kamar Montevideo, Valparaiso da Buenos Aires.[2] A cikin tafiye-tafiye goma sha shida tsakanin Disamba 1885 da Agusta 1903, ta yi tazarar matakai masu wahala a kewayen Cape Horn. Ma'aikatan Polly Woodside, ciki har da maigidanta da abokinta, galibi ba su wuce 20 ba.

 Tafiye-tafiyen 1904–1922 
A shekarar 1904, an sayar da Polly Woodside ga AH Turnbull ta New Zealand kuma aka sake masa suna Rona bayan Miss Rona Monro, 'yar wani mai hannun jari a kamfanin. Rona, wacce aka kimanta a shekarar 1906 akan £4,300, ta yi aiki a kamfanin New Zealand - na Australiya, tana ɗauke da katako, gishiri, siminti, hatsi da kwal. Jirgin ya canza hannu a shekarar 1911 akan £3000 ga Kyaftin Harrison Douglas,  na New Zealand kuma a shekarar 1916 ga Kamfanin George H. Scales. Saboda asarar da aka samu a jigilar kaya a yakin 1914-1918, Rona ta kuma yi ciniki tsakanin tashoshin jiragen ruwa na New Zealand da San Francisco, tana ɗauke da man fetur da kuma copra.  Hatsari biyu sun faru a shekarun ƙarshe na aikin jirgin ruwa na jirgin. A watan Maris na 1920, jirgin WJ Pirie, wanda ke ƙarƙashin ja a tashar jiragen ruwa ta San Francisco, ya yi karo da Rona a kan anga, yana ɗauke da hular kai. Sai a watan Yunin 1921, Rona, dauke da kayan kwal, aka kafa a kan Steeple Rock, kusa da Wellington Heads. Ƙasan shingen ya yi barna sosai kuma an iya ja ta zuwa tashar jiragen ruwa ta Wellington. Duk da haka, an ga wasu ƙananan karyewar damuwa a kan rufin jirgin lokacin da aka dakatar da jirgin a shekarar 1974. 

 Manazarta 
"RONA SOLD". Daily Commercial News And Shipping List. No. 10, 667. New South Wales, Australia. 30 August 1922. p. 4. Retrieved 30 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.