| Type : |
Wooden motor vessel |
| Launched : |
1936 |
| Builder : |
Gordon Beattie Woy Woy, NSW |
| Gross weight : |
57 tons |
| Dimensions : |
72.7 x 17.0 x 7.0 (feet) |
| Passenger capacity : |
unknown |
| Speed : |
10 knots |
Eagle Star is a wooden ferry built in 1936 and described by G Andrews as in the Art Deco style.
She was the third ferry belonging to Norman Heggarty and operated in his fleet from 1936 until 1950 after which she was sold to port Phillip bay to operate around Cowes as a tourist boat.
Thereafter she had a series of accidents, the first being on 18/01/1954 whilst carrying "several hundred members" (unlikely due to her capacity) of a local RSL picnic party she struck a reef near san Remo. Damage was light.
More seriously, on the 30th of December 1978 she took on water and sank, eventually being raised and repaired.
Again, on March 20th 2004 she took on water and sank in Port Phillip Bay. Once again she was raised and restored to service.
She was offered for sale and was taken to Brisbane where work commenced to vastly alter the vessel. The almost unrecognisable ferry has a page at http://www.makeitsew.ws/EagleStar that shows some of the work done.