| Type : |
Wooden motor vessel |
| Launched : |
1945 |
| Builder : |
The Port Jackson and Manly
Steamship Company Ltd Neutral Bay, NSW |
| Gross : |
17 tons |
| Dimensions : |
34.5 x 12.5 x 4.9 (feet) |
| Passenger capacity : |
unknown |
| Speed : |
9 knots |
Currawong was built by the Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company at their Kurraba Point workshops for the company's Hawkesbury River services.
In this service she operated with several other small vessels and was, at least for the first few years, profitable. But the company fell on lean times and were nearly sent broke by the conversion of Barrenjoey to North Head and as a result disposed of the Pittwater ferries in 1951 to E H Caldwell.
In 1952 the company foreclosed on the mortgage to this gentleman and took the fleet back. It is likely thatb at this time she was renameed to Currawong Star.
In July 1958 she and her sister Rambler Star were sold to Victoria and they operated for some yeas as tourist vessels on Lake Eildon. At a later date both vessels were sold to Fiji (early 1960's according to A M Prescott) although one reference states New Guinea (book, Lake eildon, a Record Low). To accomplish this, both vessels were apparently lowered over the dam spillway.