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From: Ian Wright <>
Subject: Re: [HV] Clarence Town Shipbuilding
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 08:35:42 +1000
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Hello again Laura,
Unfortunately neither book is indexed.Try the
following person who does indexing for the "Maitland Mercury",you never
know,your Peter SCOTT may get a mention somewhere in this local paper,which
has been going from the early 1800s.Rod Gow at ,Rod
will be only too pleased to help you if he can.His webpage is
http://www3.ceinternet.com.au/rgow .

Cheers, Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "ylaura" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [HV] Clarence Town Shipbuilding


> 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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