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Object type
Paddle-steamers
Object number
1988.0128.0001
Description
Paddle-steamer 'P S Enterprise'. A white painted wooden-framed and hulled side-wheel paddle-steamer that has a wheelhouse in front of a cabin, and a chimney on her upperdeck. The Beverley Iron Company 12-horsepower two-cylinder steam engine is housed longitudinally in the hull above the boiler. It is between two walkways flanked by the two paddle boxes that are on the lower deck, and it propels the paddle wheels via a chain drive. Small overhanging cabins, which are triangular in plan, are built onto the front of both of the paddle boxes, and their floors form the begining of a sponson deck that continues aft of the paddle boxes and surrounds another cabin on the rear of the hull. The outer wall of both of the paddle boxes is a wooden lattice screen, and a ladder attached to their sloping solid back wall provides access to the upper deck from the sponson deck. The upper deck is formed by the combined roofs of the cabins and paddle boxes below. The vessel has a very shallow draft, there being only 75cms between the waterline and the bottom of her keel.
The vessel is fully operational.
Collection name
Graeme Rex and Jane Avril Niehus collection no. 1
Manufacturer
Beverley Iron Coy Limited
Engine
Builder
William Keir
Original hull and superstructure
Restorer
City of Echuca
Restored the hull and superstructure
Restorer
Johns Perry Limited
Built a replica replacement boiler for the restored vessel
Restorer
Lake Goldsmith Steam & General Engineering
Refurbished the original engine for the restored vessel
Materials
Wood, Metal - non specific, Paint - non specific, Tar, Water, Mineral oil
Dimensions
Length: 17100mm
Width: 4600mm
Weight: 50000kg