Agnes Irving

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Agnes Irving (1862)

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Name: Agnes Irving
Owner: Clarence and Richmond River Steam Navigation Company
Port of registry: Sydney
Ship registration number: 59/1862
Ship official number: 43237
Builder: Charles Lungley Kent, Deptford Green, United Kingdom
Completed: 1862
Fate: Wrecked 28 December 1879
General characteristics
Type: Iron paddle steamer
Tonnage: Gross tonnage (GT) of 431  tons
Displacement: Net tonnage (NT) of 333  tons
Length: 62.02  m
Beam: 7.467  m
Draught: 3.566  m
Installed power: Oscillating Steam Engine

The Agnes Irving was an Iron paddle Steamer built in 1862 at Charles Lungley's Dockyard,[1] Deptford Green on the River Thames, London, that was wrecked when it entered the Macleay River on ebb tide whilst carrying general cargo between Sydney and the Macleay River and was lost off the South Spit of the old entrance of the Macleay River Trial Bay, New South Wales on the 28 December 1879


Further reading

Online Database's
Australian National Shipwreck Database[1]
Australian Shipping - Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks [2]
Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks - New South Wales Shipwrecks [3]

Other Online sources
Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 [4]
Books

References

  1. ^ Greenwich Industrial History, Lungley - Deptford shipwright, 15 December 2009

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Coordinates: 30°48′23″S 153°00′18″E / 30.806350°S 153.005007°E / -30.806350; 153.005007


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