The ''Agnes Irving'' was an iron

paddle steamer A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses wer ...

built in 1862 at Charles Lungley's Dockyard, Deptford Green on the

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, London.Lungley - Deptford shipwright
Greenwich Industrial History, 15 December 2009 It was wrecked on 28 December 1879, when it entered the

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on ebb tide whilst carrying general cargo from

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, and was lost off the South Spit of the old entrance of Trial Bay, New South Wales.

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