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Bay in Sydney Harbour, Australia

Berrys Bay is a bay located to the east of the Waverton Peninsula and the west of McMahons Point, on the north of Sydney Harbour.

A number of ship building firms operate from the bay.

History

Shipbuilding

William Alfred Dunn (1839 – 1915) established a boat-building yard at Berry's Bay in the 1870s. In 1878 Dunn built Sydney's first steamer with propellers at both ends for the North Shore Ferry Company, for passenger ferry service in Sydney Harbour. Dunn's boatyard at Berry's Bay built ferry-boats, tugboats and lighters, as well as sailing boats and steam yachts. His sons, Charles and William Dunn, also became boat-builders.

Walter McFarlane Ford (1841 – 1934) established a shipbuilding yard at Berry's Bay in 1878, which, over a period of 40 years, turned out a variety of vessels, including pearling schooners, island and mission vessels, surfboats and racing yachts and cruisers.

A maritime precinct

In 2008 the Government of New South Wales called for Expressions of Interest for the private sector to develop a maritime precinct at Berrys Bay. In 2013 Roads & Maritime Services and Government Property NSW entered into an agreement to lease with Pacifica Developments (formerly known as Meridien Marinas) to develop a maritime precinct at this site. No later information is available on this project.

In March 2021 Transport for NSW appointed a Berrys Bay Community and Stakeholder Working Group to help shape a fresh vision for this historic Waverton harbourside location. The group was scheduled to meet for the first time in April. In February 2022 ownership of the Qurantine Depot site passed to North Sydney Council.

References

North Sydney Heritage Leaflet 9: Boatbuilding in North Sydney, North Sydney Heritage Centre, North Sydney Council.
^ Family records, Ancestry.com.
New Harbour Ferry Boat, Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney), 28 September 1878, page 32.
Veteran Boat-Builder: Death of Mr. W. A. Dunn, 3 September 1915, page 5.
The Hon. R. H. D. White's New Yacht, 26 March 1889, page 8.
Shipbuilder Dies, Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 8 December 1934, page 7.
Mr. E. A. E. Ford, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 October 1937, page 21.
Berrys Bay Maritime Precinct Government of New South Wales
Berrys Bay proposed maritime precinct Roads & Maritime Services
A new Berrys Bay Community and Stakeholder Working Group has been appointed to help shape a fresh vision for this historic Waverton harbourside location Transport for NSW 26 March 2021
Unlocking the Berrys Bay foreshore with the transformation of Quarantine Depot site Department of Planning & Environment 4 February 2022

v t e Waterways of the Sydney Metropolitan catchment, New South Wales, Australia
Major inlets and harbours	Botany Bay Broken Bay Middle Harbour Port Jackson Port Hacking
Minor bays and coves	Akuna Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Burraneer Canada Careening Cove Cockle Dolans Double Elizabeth Gwawley Gymea Hen & Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons Weeney White Woolooware
Lagoons	Dee Why Curl Curl Manly Narrabeen
Rivers	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Hawkesbury Lane Cove Lennox (proposed) Nepean Parramatta Pittwater Woronora
Creeks	A'Becketts Angus Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bedford Bellamy Farm Bellbird Bells Berowra Bidjigal Bilgola Blacktown Blaxland Blue Gum Boggywell Bonds Breakfast Brennans Brickmakers Bunbury Curran Bungarribee Burdekin Byrnes Cabramatta Caddies Cahill Camp Careel Carroll Charity Claremont Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Coopers Cosgrove Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Deadmans Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Eskdale Excelsior Finlaysons First Ponds Forbes Green Valley Frenchs Glenbrook Gore Grantham Greystanes Haslams Hunts Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Knapsack Lalor Little Lowes Marsden McCarrs McKenzies McMahon's Maxwells Middle Harbour Mill Minchinbury O'Hares Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Pendle Hill Powells Prospect Punchbowl Quakers Reedy Rileys Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Sawmill Scout Second Ponds Smalls Smiths South Still Stoney Subiaco Tarban Terrys Thompsons Toongabbie Two Vineyard Werrington Whites Williams Wolli
Canals and streams	Alexandra Canal Busby's Bore Guildford West pipehead and water supply canal Hawthorne Canal Tank Stream Upper Canal System
Reservoirs	Balmain (disused) Botany Swamps Centennial Park Lake Burragorang Manly Dam Reserve Paddington (disused) Penshurst Petersham Lake Parramatta Prospect Prospect Hill Reservoir Upper Nepean Scheme Waverley
Adjoining rivers and bays	Akuna Brisbane Water Burke Cataract Colo Cordeaux Coxs Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Macdonald Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Tarlo Warragamba Wollondilly

v t e Coastal bays and inlets of New South Wales, Australia
North of Sydney Harbour	Akuna Anna Bateau Blue Boat Harbour Bonnells Booker Brisbane Water Broken Byron Careel Carey Catherine Hill Chain Valley Chittaway Cogra Crangan Croudace Crowdy Elvina Empire Fennell Fingal Fishermans Hardys Kilaben Lovett Morning Myuna Bay Nelson One Mile Oyster Phegans Port Stephens Salamander Shoal Tanilba Toowoon Trial Warners Woy Woy
Within Sydney Harbour	Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Canada Careening Cove Cockle Double Elizabeth Hen & Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Port Jackson Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons White
South of Sydney Harbour	Bate Batemans Bittangabee Bondi Bonnet Botany Burraneer Callala Coogee Dolans Gunnamatta Gwawley Gymea Jervis Bay Kogarah Kyle Little Mackenzies Malua Mystery Port Hacking Twofold Weeney Wattamolla Woolooware Yowie
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