PS Mayflower
One of the oldest wooden-hulled paddle steamers still afloat, moored at historic Morgan.
The PS Mayflower is a survivor. Built in the 1880s, she is among the oldest wooden-hulled paddle steamers still afloat anywhere on the Murray, and her home is the old river port of Morgan, once the busiest inland port in the colony.
When she's in steam she runs short heritage cruises from the Morgan wharf precinct, the boiler thumping and the paddles biting the brown water exactly as they did when Morgan moved wool and wheat by the riverboat-load.
Even tied up she's worth the look. Walk the restored Morgan wharf, read the flood markers, and you start to understand how completely this town once lived by the river.
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- P.S. Ruby tied up outside another paddle steamer at Morgan Wharf.png by Godson Collection - State Library of South Australia https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/collection/Godson+Collection , Public domain via Wikimedia Commons