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BROXAM, Graeme.
The Bass Strait ferry 'City of Melbourne': pioneer Australian screw steamship.
Navarine Publishing Hobart 2008 250 copies. 54pp, 15 illus (3 in colour), double-page map. Stapled in wrappers. Fine (new). Signed by the author. ISBN 0975133136 ***The in-depth story of the first screw steamship built in Australia, and the first purpose-built steamer on the ferry run across Bass Strait. She entered service at the beginning of the Victorian gold rush, and carried many prospective diggers from Tasmania (not a few of them 'Vandemonians', or ex-convicts). She went ashore on King Island in 1852, and although refloated did not return to this run, operating in NSW and Queensland instead, before being refitted as a sailing ship in 1858 and working the Pacific run until wrecked in 1873.
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