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ALMA DOEPEL under full sail

Coastal Trading Vessels

Coastal trading vessels were fundamental to trade throughout Australia for decades. Many coastal towns and ports were the regional centre for trade, and the sea was the means of connecting them to each other until land routes by road and rail became economic to use

Vessel highlights
MAY QUEEN, June 2012
Alexander Lawson
1867
HECLA in 2007, on display at the Axel Stenross Maritime Museum in South Australia.
Thomas Beauchamp
1903
ANNIE WATT on the sand flats in the northern gulf region of South Australia.
Wilson Brothers
1870
NELCEBEE in the 1950s under sail rig
Thomas Seath
1883