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Paddle steamer Adelaide in Echuca area [PRG 1258/1/12] • Photograph

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Summary

The 'Adelaide' iron paddle steamer, Echuca area.

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Physical description

Photoprint; 150 x 10 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1890

Collection

Part of Godson Collection

Subject

Adelaide (Paddle steamer)
Paddle steamers -- Victoria -- Echuca
Paddle steamers -- Murray River (N.S.W. - S.A.)

Catalogue record

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General notes

PS 'Adelaide' is wooden hulled on wooden frames. The Adelaide is fully wooden in her construction, using Murray River Red Gum frames and planking. She is the third oldest original paddle steamer in the world still operating today and perhaps the oldest wooden paddle steamer in the world operating today [2019].[Information supplied by Frank Tucker.].

Historical information

Registered at Sydney, 1866, official number 38805. Built in Echuca by G. Linklater. (Godson number 35A/13).

Digitisation information

Date

23/02/2001

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,029 x 2,013 pixels (6.1 MP)

Size

6.10 MB

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