PS Success
The newest addition to Echuca’s paddlesteamer fleet, the PS Success is currently undergoing restoration at the Port of Echuca. The hull of the PS Success was purchased from the Riverboat Society in Mildura in 2009 and is to be fully restored under the experienced hand of Kevin Hutchinson, the Port of Echuca’s senior shipwright. The PS Success was built at Moama in June 1877 and was the last working paddlesteamer to carry wool along the Darling and Murray River’s during the floods of 1956. The PS Success spent her working days towing barges of sawn red gum, wool and other cargo along the river systems as well as operating briefly as a passenger boat from Swan Hill to Mildura during 1915-16.
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