MV Nelcebee
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The MV Nelcebee is an auxiliary schooner that served the South Australian coastal trade from 1883 to 1982.[1]
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MV Nelcebee | |
History | |
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Australia | |
Name | MV Nelcebee |
Namesake | Nelcebee after the Aboriginal name for a spring at Port Pirie |
Owner | Captain Williams of Port Adelaide (1983-unknown), unknown (-1962), R Fricker and Company (1962-1982) |
Builder | T.B. Seath & Co. at Rutherglen, Scotland |
Cost | £7,000 |
Commissioned | 1883; 141 years ago (1883) |
Decommissioned | 1982 |
Fate | To South Australian Maritime Museum |
Status | Museum Ship |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steam tug and lighter (1883-1927) Motor ketch (1927-) |
Length | 32.61 metres |
Beam | 5.69 metres |
Draft | 2.79 metres |
Installed power | Steam (1883-1927) Diesel (1927-) |
Sail plan | Ketch (1927-) |
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