The Tall Ship Polly Woodside at berth in Melbourne.Polly Woodside was built at the north shipbuilding yard of Workman, Clark and Co, Queen's Island, Belfast during 1885, for William J. Woodside and Co. She was launched on 7 November 1885; the christening performed by the owner's wife, Mrs Marian ("Polly") Woodside, after whom the ship was named.[1] Polly Woodside operated as a cargo vessel carrying coal, nitrate, and wheat between British ports and the ports of South America, such as Montevideo, Valparaiso and Buenos Aires.\After several owners she ended her career as a coal hulkin Melbourne in 1946.An estimated 60,000 hours of painstaking voluntary labour saw the ship refurbished close to its original state.In 1978 she was opened under her original name to the public, and is now permanently moored at the old Duke and Orr's Dry Dock on the Yarra River near Melbourne.