Alexander Arbuthnot (paddle Steamer)
The ''Alexander Arbuthnot'' is the last paddle steamer built as a working boat during the riverboat trade era on the Murray River, Australia. Vessel history The ship was built by the Arbuthnot Sawmill at Koondrook, Victoria, Koondrook in 1916, as a barge, and named after the sawmill's founder. She was fitted with an engine and superstructure in 1923. The engine was built by Richard Hornsby & sons, Grantham Lincolnshire, England and imported for Melbourne's Centennial international exhibition of 1888-89, and later installed in the paddle steamer ''Glimpse in 1889, then re-used in Arbuthnot in 1923.'' The ship towed empty barges to the nearby forest to collect logs; then back to the mill where the logs were cut up into lengths of timber. Barges towed upstream could be left for loading then floated back downstream on the current while the steamer returned to the mill and took another barge upstream. The boat worked at the mill until the 1940s. In 1942, the Alexander Arbuthnot was ...
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ...
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