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Captains of River Steamers [B 6424] • Photograph

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Summary

Group portrait of Captains George Grundy, Edward Creamer, and F. H. C. Kruse, Masters of River Murray paddle steamers. Edward Creamer or Creemer, later standardised as Cremer, first came to Australia as a sailor on a ship carrying convicts to Tasmania in the 1820s. He worked on a number of whaling ships before joining a land-based crew at Encounter Bay by 1848. He lived at Goolwa, where he married Mary Driscoll in 1850 and had a large family. He was appointed as the first signalman at the Murray Mouth in 1857, but soon returned to working as a pilot, fisherman and captain of the schooner Water Lily, carrying cargo from ports around the lakes to Goolwa. Captain Edward Cremer was appointed the first signalman when the railway was established between Adelaide and Goolwa. He was found dead in his boat after suffering a heart attack while carrying a load of salt. He was 75 years old when he died in 1892 and had been a colonist for 50 years. Captain FHC Kruse was born 25th May, 1823 in Germany and went to sea at 14 years of age. He arrived in Adelaide in 1854, settled in Milang and purchased boats to begin trading on the lakes and Cooroong. Although retired at 80 he remained active in the Milang Regattas.

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Physical description

Photograph; 10.2 cm x 13.8 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1875

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Creamer, Edward
Kruse, F. H. C.
Grundy, George
Ponkaree (Ship)
Older people -- South Australia
Ship captains -- South Australia

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Digitisation information

Date

06/09/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,449 x 3,304 pixels (8.1 MP)

Size

24.31 MB

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