Huntress







Huntress
Type :
 Wooden paddlewheel steamer
Launched  :
1853
Builder :
 Newton and Malcolm
Manning River, NSW
Gross :
 86 tons
Dimensions :
 89.10 x 16.20 x 7.60 (feet)
Passenger capacity :
 unknown
Speed :
 11 knots

An obscure vessel  about which only a little is known.

Between 1854 and 1857 she operated on the Manly route under the ownership of  G Russell and J and A Brown.

She was sold to New Zealand in 1860 and was wrecked on March 15th, 1872.
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