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Adelaide Echuca 1986. Chris Miles.jpg.jpg

Adelaide detail 1986 Chris Miles.jpg.jpg

Adelaide at Echuca in 1986. Photos by kind courtesy of Chris Miles Lighthouse Creative Inc

Built - 1866 at Echuca
Hull - Wood
Length - 76 ft : breadth - 17 ft : draught 2 ft 4 in
Engines ; 2 x cylinder

Built for Grassy & Partners, she was used for most of her life for transporting timber, the Echuca community brought her back to the port in 1960 and she was hauled on to dry land at Hopwood Gardens in 1964. Twenty years later, Adelaide was refloated, and now has a passenger certificate for 12 people
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