FAMOUS SHIP
OLDEST PASSENGER STEAMER IN WORLD. EDINA TO BE BROKEN UP. . By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. MELBOURNE, July 14. The Edina, the oldest passenger steamer in the world, has been sold to a Victorian and will be broken up for scrap metal. The Edina was launched on the Clyde in 1854. She served during the Crimean War as a storeship and carried Florence Nightingale as a passenger. The steamer ran the blockade from Texas during the American Civil War, and also took miners from Melbourne across the Tasman Sea at the time of the Otago gold rush.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 9
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97FAMOUS SHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 9
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