Alexander Arbuthnot
Echuca, Victoria
The paddle steamer "Alexander Arbuthnot" moored at the Echuca Wharf on the Murray River on a warm summer's day.
This was taken from another paddle steamer, the "Pevensey", on which we did a short tour of the river at Echuca.
The "Alexander Arbuthnot" was originally used to tow barges of red gum logs for Alexander Arbuthnot's sawmill in downstream Koondrook.
Other paddle steamers were used to ship wool in the 19th century wool from sheep stations along the river to the Port of Echuca for transport by train to Melbourne for export and local manufacturing.
Nowadays "AA", as it was called, is used as a tourist boat in the Port of Echuca.
More information here: www.echucapaddlesteamers.net.au/about-us/ps-alexander-arb...
PS. If you look closely at the piles on the wharf you can see where the water level reached during the floods last year that seriously threatened the town of Echuca. The levels are now back to a normal summer level as one local observed but the volume of water flowing through during the spring was extraordinary.
PPS. The flag on the "AA" which is obscured here is the Murray River Flag which was used on paddle steamers and other vessels operating on the Murray and tributaries. More information here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_River_Flag
Alexander Arbuthnot
Echuca, Victoria
The paddle steamer "Alexander Arbuthnot" moored at the Echuca Wharf on the Murray River on a warm summer's day.
This was taken from another paddle steamer, the "Pevensey", on which we did a short tour of the river at Echuca.
The "Alexander Arbuthnot" was originally used to tow barges of red gum logs for Alexander Arbuthnot's sawmill in downstream Koondrook.
Other paddle steamers were used to ship wool in the 19th century wool from sheep stations along the river to the Port of Echuca for transport by train to Melbourne for export and local manufacturing.
Nowadays "AA", as it was called, is used as a tourist boat in the Port of Echuca.
More information here: www.echucapaddlesteamers.net.au/about-us/ps-alexander-arb...
PS. If you look closely at the piles on the wharf you can see where the water level reached during the floods last year that seriously threatened the town of Echuca. The levels are now back to a normal summer level as one local observed but the volume of water flowing through during the spring was extraordinary.
PPS. The flag on the "AA" which is obscured here is the Murray River Flag which was used on paddle steamers and other vessels operating on the Murray and tributaries. More information here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_River_Flag