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