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The paddle-wheel–driven tug ‘PS Tamar’.
This photo was published in "The Weekly Courier" on 23/12/19?, in a series "Interesting Pictures of Maritime Board Tugs Past and Present". Notes attached to the Library file were: "The paddle-wheel-driven tug ‘Tamar’, of which Capt. Clarence Begent was master, and which was in use on the (River) Tamar in the late eighties." It is reproduced with the kind permission of the Launceston Library, State Library of Tasmania, from their file: B&W Neg 160/01.
"PS Tamar" moored in front of the Marine Board Office at Launceston Courtesy: Launceston Library, State Library of Tasmania.
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