PS Pevensey & PS Ulonga

[Roderick Smith]

While I was scanning photos from Michael, I scanned this one of two models on a lake on Tues.13.6.06.  Perhaps the camera was on a wrong setting, and is was Sat.10-Mon.12.6.06, at the annual major steam rally in Echuca?  The rally is not at the port, it is at a greenfields site on the fringe of the city, with Campaspe River alongside (but not navigable to that point).  It features steam and other machinery, and has a miniature railway track on site.  Last time I was there I photographed a massed display of Victa lawnmowers: a classic Australian design ('Victa mowed Australia what it is today').
The further model is clearly of PS Pevensey.
The nearer one is more mysterious: the doors on the upper cabins do not match either PS Pevensey or PS Alexander Arbuthnot.  As explained by three independent posts below, it is PS Ulonga, a close twin to PS Pevensey (see the thread on Aussie twins somewhere else in Paddleducks).
I haven't compared this photo with the ones taken at Echuca's 2006 heritage festival to see if they are the same models.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[Excelsior]

The closer one isn't an exact model of any boat.  The upper deck resembles the Oscar W as built, but the placement of the stairs forward of the paddlebox makes me think that the model is supposed to represent the Pevensey before burning in 1932, or the Ulonga.  Although, the upper deckhouses would have to be shorter with only two cabin doors behind the wheelhouse on each side to be completely acurate.

It's a very nice looking model though!

[michael]

I think it was to be of PS Ulonga

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's.....& yes Michael... when we  consult page 138 from ...."Ronald Parsons"....stern view from 1948..... & page 62 from "Peter Phillips" - similar vintage.... I must agree with your thoughts that this model was based upon......

PS Ulonga.....111.5 x 22.0 x 6.11 Built 1910... O/N 120769

[Excelsior]

P.S. Ulonga...  Pics are taken from the state library of S.A. site

She was updated in the 40's (maybe late 30's) to a layout similar to the Pevensey's current one (ie wheelhouse all the way forward on the upper deck & an extra cabin at the aft end).

[michael]

Here is Ulonga in her last days as a ketch before she sank in St Vincent's Gulf, I've seen photo's of her remains and she looks to be in tact. It is reported that she may have struck something causing her to sink unlike the rumour the gypsum she was carrying opened her timbers up and she went under!