Archive for: September 2011

PRG 1258/4/82: Captain D. Treacy of ‘P.S. Avoca’ at Mildura, with an unidentified river boat Captain, both in the wheelhouse. Visit www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/screens/opacmenu.html to view more photos of South Australia

This is a British made old steel lift bridge, built on river Dikhow, Sivasagar, Assam. The middle portion of the bridge was used lift to cross steamers.

The word Maheno means ‘island’ in Maori, which is the native language of New Zealand. The Maheno was built in Scotland in 1904 and was the world’s first ever triple screw steamer, weighing a massive 5323 tonnes. It also held the blue ribbon in trans-atlantic crossing for several years after …