SS ‘Edina’ – the Longest Serving Screw Steamer in the World !!!
Aus Shipping, Australia, Coastal Runs - QLD, Coastal Runs - VIC, International Shipping, Queensland, Shipping - Queensland, Shipping - Victoria, The Steamers of Port Phillip Bay, VictoriaThe SS 'Edina' is one of the most remembered vessels that plied the waters of Port Phillip Bay. Often referred to as the 'Old Lady of Port Phillip', she became the longest serving Screw Steamer in the World. Her active service included the North Sea Trade, 2 wars, Victoria's West Coast Run, New Zealand to Melbourne, Queensland Coastal Trade, and Port Phillip Bay Runs from 1880 to 1938...1854Map of Queensland – Maritime Boundary – 1878
Coastal Runs - QLD, Historical POI - Central QLD, Historical POI - Mid QLD Coast, Historical POI - North East QLD Coast, Historical POI - Northern QLD, Historical POI - South East QLD Coast, Historical POI - South Western QLD, Queensland, Shipping - QueenslandThis map of 1878 indicates the new Maritime Boundary of Queensland, Australia, as proclaimed by Letters Patent on the 10th October 1878...1878SS ‘Charlotte Fenwick’
Coastal Runs - NSW, Coastal Runs - QLD, Coastal Runs - VIC, Gippsland's Steamers, New South Wales, Queensland, Shipping - New South Wales, Shipping - Queensland, Shipping - Victoria, The Steamers of Port Phillip Bay, VictoriaThe SS 'Charlotte Fenwick' was a propeller driven screw steamer, built in Sydney by Walter Macfarlane Ford Snr., a legendary boat builder of Berrys Bay, North Sydney, New South Wales; for a Mr John Fenwick, who named the steamer after his wife, Charlotte...1883
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