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From: ylaura <>
Subject: Re: [HV] Clarence Town Shipbuilding
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:42:07 +1000


Many thanks Ian

Neither the State Library of Qld nor the Brisbane City Council Library service seems to hold a copy of either book. If you have a copy, could you please tell me whether they have indexes, and if so, whether Peter SCOTT gets a mention?

Cheers
Laura


----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Wright <>
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2003 10:52 am
Subject: [HV] Clarencertown Shipbuilding

> Hi Laura,
> A local Clarencetown historian,Reg Ford,has
> published 2 books
> about Clarencetown which includes it's history as a shipbuilding
> centre.Thesecond book-"Williams River-the land & it's people" ISBN
> 0-646-16829-0 may
> be available at a library.
> Briefly shipbuilding commenced there with Messrs William LOWE & James
> MARSHALL in 1830 at their Deptford yard.Building continued at that
> yard with
> other builders & also at other yards until 1907.Australia's first
> locallybuilt steam powered vessel "William the Fourth" was built
> by Lowe & Marshall
> at Deptford in 1831.A full size replica was built locally in
> Raymond Terrace
> for Australia's bicentenary celebrations in 1988.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>

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