Ship Details
Rig
Screw Steamer
Built
1851
Tonnage
139
Demise
On a voyage to Tasmania, 7 August 1852, the ship could not weather King Island in an easterly gale, so Captain Saunders wisely beached her in the bay which now bears the ship's name and saved all 250 aboard. Later salvaged and taken to Sydney.
Description
The first Australian-built screw steamer and the sirst steamship in the southern hemisphere.
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