| Type : |
Wooden steam ship |
| Launched : |
1873 |
| Builder : |
William Dunn Lavender Bay, NSW |
| Gross weight : |
16 tons (as built) |
| Dimensions : |
64.0 x 10.0 x 4.4 (feet) |
| Passenger capacity : |
150 |
| Speed : |
unknown |
Eclipse was a wooden steam ferry built for Jeanneret's Parramatt River Steam Company and sold (along with the rest of the fleet) to Phillip Walker before eventually being absorbed by Sydney Ferries limited.
As built she had an open top deck with no enclosed bridge; when purchased by Sydney Ferries she was vastly modified to more closely resemeble the other Parramatta River steamers.
She was known as a slow and clumsy vessel and had sunk on at least two occassions - on the second time the vessel was entirely swamped when her mooring lines were held too tigthly in the face ofa high spring tide.
Walker had attempted to utilise her in the 1880s on an abortive attempt to trial a service to Mosman; unsuited to the task and in competition with the better designed early double enders she was withdrawn and returned to the river service.
She was sold out of service and broken up in 1925.