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Alexander Arbuthnot
Built - 1916 (originally as a barge) at Koondrook, before being fitted out with machinery at Echuca in 1923
Hull - Wood
Length - 76 ft (22.8 m) : Breadth - 15 ft 3 in (4.57 m) : Draught - 2 ft 3 in (0.67 m)
Engine : Built by Ruston & Hornsby of the UK. Re-used from the vessel "Glimpse".
Built by
Alexander Arbuthnot at his sawmill for the transport of logs. Between
1947 and 1972 she lay sunk at her moorings, before being raised by a
volunteer group. It was not until 1989 that she came into the
ownership of the Port of Echuca and was restored for public service from 1994,
now having a capacity of 47 passengers.
She
is regarded as the last working paddle steamer to be built for the Murray River during the riverboat trade era
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