P.S.
Alexander Arbuthnot- Built 1923
at Arbuthnot's Koondrook Sawmill
'Full
Steam Ahead'
Alternates
with the PS Alexander Arbuthnot,
Cruises daily 10.15am, 11.30am, 1.00pm, 2.15pm and 3.30pm.
The Alexander Arbuthnot was the last steamer built on the Murray
during the riverboat trade and was used as a logging boat for some
years until she was sold to charcoal producers in the Barmah Forest.
During WW2 the 'A.A.' lay idle and sank at her moorings in 1947
but was raised in 1972 by a group of Shepparton volunteers. The
'A.A' was bought by the City of Echuca in 1989 for resoration at
the Port. |
