FLOATING HOME
EDINA NOT TO BE BROKEN UP. (Recd This Day, 10.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The old steamer Edina is not be broken up. The vessel has been resold and the new owner intends to use her as a floating home. A recent cablegram from Melbourne stated that the Edina, the oldest pasr senger Steamer in the world, had been sold to a Victorian and would be brok-en-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, 18 July 1938, Page 6
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127FLOATING HOME Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 6
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