BOOK OF THE MURRAY.
Lawrence, G.V. Kinross Smith, Graeme
(Adelaide), Rigby, (1975 map, colour and b&w illust., pp.
Wildlife, fish, plants, birds, Murray Explorers and pioneers, Paddle
Steamers, Aborigines, etc.
CORNUBIA PADDLE STEAMER and the Common Seal of the City of Gladstone
Queensland
Billing, John
Port Keats, N.T. 1993. Magic Daffodil Studio Press Limited edit. of
500 copies, numbered & signed by author. (
, 32 PP with 5 full-page
b/w draw. Hard cover, dj.. This paddle steamer built for the coast of
Cornwall, came to Australia & was owned by Ben Boyd. She ended in
Aneytum, Southern Vanuatu, owned by Capt. James Paddon, whaler,
sandalwood trader and colonist in New Caledonia. Limited edit. of 500
copies, numbered & signed by author.
ECHUCA - MOAMA : MURRAY RIVER NEIGHBOURS
Coulson, Helen
Red Cliffs, Sunnyland Press, 1981 (2nd ed). B&w photos +
illustrations by David McCabe
FERRIES OF SYDNEY
Andrews, Graeme
Trident Publication, Willoughby NSW Australia 1969. Sydney, Reed,
1975. Sydney Oxford U. P. 1994. Staple bound card covers. 128pp.
Coloured and b/w ills. The Ferries were originally a main-stay of
transportation around Sydney and up the Parramatta River inland;-
'South Steyne', ' Stannard's, Hegarty's, Rosman's, 'Manly Ferry
Company' and 'Sydney Ferry Company' are just a few of the key names
from the Sydney Harbour's past and their memory lingers on. Near 400
vessels that plied their trade are illustrated or mentioned in the
text. Aboriginal translations of ferry names, ship statistics.
FROM THE SPLASH OF THE PADDLE-WHEEL. True Tales of the Steamboat Era.
Taylor, Captain Donald
Print N'Press St Stephen NB1985. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Card
Covers. True tales of the steamboat Era by St. John River Boat
Historian.115 pp fold-out map at rear
IN THE WAKE OF THE COONAWARRA
Painter, Gwenda,
Melbourne and Sydney: Lothian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd, 1970 barge48
PP plus 34 pages with 60 b/w photos. Story of the River Murray
paddle-wheeler M.V. Coonawarra and its links with ehe P. S.
Murrumbidgee, P. S. Excelsior, and J. L. Roberts. Fp: Sketch map of
Darling, Murray & Murrumbidgee Basin. Pictorial soft cover. Very
good. 21.6 x 13.7. The Coonawarra was built in 1950 with parts of
these three craft.
LOXTON: District and Town.
Casson, Marjory R. Hirst. W. R. C. A25 Melbourne. Hawthorn
Press. 1st ed. 1972. 134pp. Eight b/w plates and map in e.p. d/w.
Mint. The Murray and its paddle-steamers in South Australia.
MANLY FERRIES OF SYDNEY HARBOUR The Seven Mile Ships
Mead, Tom
Frenchs Forest Child & Associates 1988. Paddle wheelers to modern
times these are the stories of the famous ferries of the Port Jackson
& manly Steamship Company. Human stories and that of the great South
Stene. 1Kg. ; Photographs; 4to; 181 pages
MURRAY RIVER PADDLE STEAMERS
Wardle, David
Canberra: Traction Publication, 1970 Cloth. Good +. 1st Ed. 12mo -
over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good book for those wanting to learn more
about the Murray River and the River Boats themselves. 35p.p., map
and b/w
photo illust.
MURRAY RIVER'S PADDLE STEAMERS AND BULLOCKIES
Tucker, Frank
Blackburn: A.E. Press, 1985. Laminated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket.
First Edition. 7 "x 9 1/2". ISBN:0 86787 038 9. P 87 numerous
illustrations of paddle steamers A history of paddle steamers on the
Murray River
OLD RIVERBOATS OF THE MURRAY.
Smyth, Dacre.
A fourth book of paintings, poetry and prose, being the
paddlesteamers and riverboats of the Murray River which also appear
in his Historic Ships of Australia. Vessels included are Australien,
Alexander Arbuthnot, Adelaide, Pevensy, Canberra, Pride of the
Murray, Mayflower, Gem, Pyap, Wanera, Melbourne, Rothbury, Avoca,
Industry, Enterprise, Tarrella, Marion, Coonawarra, Oscar W, and
Captain Sturt.
PADDLE STEAMER ADELAIDE
Coulson, Helen. Wangaratta. McCabe. 1st ed. 1985. 64pp with
bibliography & index. Numerous black & white photo illustrations and
drawings
PADDLE STEAMER GEM: Queen of the Murray
Rowland, E.C.
PADDLE STEAMERS OF AUSTRALASIA
Parsons, R.H. Lobethal, South Australia: R.H. Parsons, 1967 Soft
Cover. 172ppContribution on River Murray Steam Vessels by J.C.
Tolley. Attempts to place on record every paddle wheel steamship
owned or operated within Australasia
PADDLE STEAMERS TO CORNUCOPIA. The Renmark-Mildura Experiment of 1887.
Wells, Sydney. Victoria, The Murray Pioneer 1986 Centenary edition -
pictorial cased boards 186252467x This book is about Australia's
greatest river, the Murray, and mainly about the mid-section, in the
corner where the three States of Victoria, New South Wales and South
Australia meet, in the days when the river was a principal transport
route as well as a life-giver to a parched and devastated outback.
253 x 185mm., pp. viii + 288, pict. & map end/p., b/w plates & maps
t/out, index, index of Illust., index of append.,
PADDLE-BOATS OF THE MURRAY-DARLING RIVER SYSTEM
Brian Marshall
PADDLE-STEAMER CAPTAIN: My life on the rivers
Searles, Captain Jack
South Melbourne. Jack Searles. 1st ed. 1985. 175pp. 12 b/w illus.
Soft covers. Fine. The memoirs of an Australian river-boat captain on
the Murray and Darling river steamers
PADDLE-WHEELS AWAY!
Lawson, Will
Sydney: F.J. Thwaites, 1947 First Edition. 238pp. Name on ffep, else
very good in like dustwrapper. *A story
about the paddle-boats on the Murray and Darling Rivers
PICTORIAL REVIEW OF MURRAY RIVER PADDLE SHIPS
Parsons, Ronald Wood, Jack
Elizabeth, South Australia.Railmac Publications, 1985. Stunning black
and white photographs by Jack Wood of the 'Old Ladies' of the Murray
River. Staple bound card covers. Good condition. 215 mm x 150 mm. 24pp
REDGUM & PADDLEWHEELS AUSTRALIA'S INLAND RIVER TRADE
Phillips, Peter
For a brief but exciting period between the 1850's and the 1890's
Australia's Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers were the scene of
a thriving transport industry with over three hundred paddle
wheelers. These vessels carried wool, wheat, and timber out and
supplies for the small settlements in. Illustrated dust jacket over
red cloth covered end boards. Good condition. 167pp. 280 x 215 mm .
RIVER BOAT DAYS on the Murray, Darling, Murrumbidgee
Phillips, Peter
Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1972 Rev 1974 132 PP with b/w photos. Hard
cover/DJ. From 1853 for about 30 years, the Murray, Darling, and
Murrumbidgee rivers were Australia's main arteries of commerce. Over
100 paddle steamers roved 4,000 miles of waterways... (the author)
has recreated the colour, adventure, and drama of the the river trade.
RIVER RIVALS: Steamboat races
Mudie Ian
Illustrated by Walter Cunningham. Australians in History Series.
Collins. Sydney. 1975. pages 64; line illustrations; hardcover in
dust jacket
The private war that went on in the 1800's between the two paddle
steamer pioneers on the Murray River, Cadell and Randell ... their
races on the river, the effect on trade of their enterprises, their
dangers and successes. Francis Cadell and William Randell were the
founders of the great riverboat age in Australia, the pioneers of
steamboats on the Murray and Darling river system.
RIVERBOAT WAYS : Australia's Inland Paddlewheelers
Phillips, Peter J
Victoria: Greenhouse Publications, 1983 Paperback. 59pp illustrated
profusely with b&w plates. Photos and anecdotes recall the adventure
and romance of the days of the paddle steamers on the Murray,
Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers and how they are coming alive again
in the modern day. The Paddle Wheelers / Life on the rivers / River
Towns / Barmah and the river trade / The Wool Trade / Disasters / The
river today...Note from the sleeve: The author Peter Phillips is a
surgeon who lives in the Murray Port of Echuca, who has extensively
researched life on the paddlestreamers both in the past and in today,
and has painstakingly collected a huge array of photographs for this
book...
RIVERBOATS AND RIVERMEN
Drage, William
Page, Michael
Adelaide: Rigby, 1976. Hard Cover (222pp.). 1982 Softcover (221pp) A
well illustrated history of the riverboats and their operators on
Australia's Murrey River, illustrated with line drawings, maps, and
numerous photos - including plans of a typical paddle steamer
Illustrations, some full-page, and with maps, one of which is double-
page. The great days of riverboats, when paddlesteamers churned along
miles of Australia's rivers. Story of Captain William Drage,
Riverboat Captain.
RIVER BOATS
Mudie, Ian
Adelaide, Rigby, 1961. HC DJ .illust., 239pp b&w photos. Paddle-
steamers on the Darling-Murray basin. Paddle-steamers once ran on
four thousand miles of the rivers of the Darling Murray basin,
traveling to such outback ports as Bourke, Wilcannia, Wahgunyah,
Wagga Wagga and Walget. They were manned by a colourful race of river-
men – humorous, hard working and proud of their steamers."
SAILING SHIPS AND PADDLE WHEELS AND OTHER GIPPSLAND SHIPPING
Bull, Capt James. C.
Author Metung, Vic. 1974.. Hard cover. 230 PP with 1 map on double
page & 70 photos. Reprint 1981 A small run book on the history of
shipping in the Gippsland area of VIctoria Early years of Capt. James
Bull on tall ships, quest for gold in New Guinea, settling in the
Gippsland Lakes,..
SHIPS OF THE INLAND RIVERS
Parsons, Ronald
Adelaide. 1990. Gould. 2nd Ed. 152 PP with maps, tables, photos &
draw. in text, 9 pages of fleet lists of river steamers. Pict. soft
cover. Fine. 24 x 18. An outline history and details of all known
paddle ships, barges and other vessels trading on the Murray-Darling
system. Records details of nearly 600 vessels that have operated on
the Murray-Darling river system. It covers the period from 1853, when
William Randell placed the first steamer on the Murray, to the
present day. It offers in handy format much more information than has
been published previously on the subject, including nearly 300
illustrations, all known owners, specifications and other information
of interest relating to the vessels.
SMALL SHIPS AND ADZE CHIPS
Bull, Capt James C.
The author, Metung, 1978. HardCover 198 pp,
SONG OF STEAM. A Chronicle of Paddle Steamers and Screw Steamers in
Tasmanian Waters 1832-1939.
O'May, D.G.
Hobart, Tasmania: T.J. Hughes, Government Printer, 1976. Pictorial
Cloth. 304 PP with 207 b/w photos. Fp: Hobart Harbour, circa 1893.
Pictorial cloth cover. Fine. 22.3 x 14.5. A record of steamships
which visited Tasmanian waters during the first one hundred years of
steam. Contents include: "The Pioneer Steamers"; "Tasmanian Steam
Navigation Company"; "Steamers of the Wild West Coast"; "East Coast
Traders"; "Pioneer Steamers of the North Coast"; "William Holyman and
Sons"; "Huddart Parker Ltd."; "Union Steamship Co. of New
Zealand"; "The Adelaide Steamship Company"; "Miscellaneous Australian
Traders"; "Commonwealth Government Lighthouse Service"; "Commonwealth
Government Fisheries Research Vessels"; "Overseas Ships"; "South
African Troop Ships"; "Japanese Freighters"; "Timber Ships"; "Early
Oil Ships"; "Tankers"; "Tramping Tankers"; "Tramp Ships"; "Steam
Whalers"; "Exploration Steamers"; "Visiting Steam Yachts".
WHEELS STILL TURN, The.
Plowman, Peter
Kangaroo Press, 1st Edn 1992.. H/c/dj. 160pp, b & w/col, diag, maps,
DJ. The history of Australian paddleboats A comprehensive over-view
of the role of paddlers in each of the colonies, in intercolonial and
overseas trading, as tugs and even church mission boats, and
particularly along the Murray River system. It is a story of
ingenuity and adaptability, of entrepreneurs and opportunists, of
opening up trade and settlement and, occasionally, of tragedy. The
book also includes brief accounts of the mechanisms of paddleboats
and of marine steam engines, along with a tourist guide to the
location of paddleboats today, most of which are day-excursion or
holiday craft.
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