[citation needed] Some of the older alternative names for the bay refer to industries that were once situated on its foreshore.
[6] The site of these earlier enterprises was later occupied by a gasworks owned by the North Shore Gas Company, from 1917 to 1987.
[10][11] In June 2021, the coal loader site was added to the NSW Heritage Register.
[citation needed] One such ship was the Lalla Rookh, which was broken up at Kerosene Bay in 1898 after it caught fire in November 1897.
The Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database describes her as a 147-ton brig, 29.9 metres (98 ft) long.