River ships and paddle steamers

The archives of the SHF have some wonderful images, none more fascinating than these. There is the paddler Rodney, burnt by striking shearers almost 130 years ago. There are ‘home made’ paddlers carrying farm produce and timber and there are river passenger ferries.

For costs and availability of obtaining any of these photos without watermark, as an electronic file, as a print from the original negative (where available) or as some other format, contact the Maritime Records and Research Centre’s Curator on mrrc@shf.org.au/home or 02 9298 3850, quoting the full file name and giving details of format wanted.

Copyright for the majority of these images from the collection is vested in the Sydney Heritage Fleet. For the remaining images every attempt has been made to ensure correct attribution. If any originator of an image notes an error the Sydney Heritage Fleet would welcome any notification and will remove that image or modify its attribution.

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