Caption:
Negative - SS Gippsland at the Mitchell River Wharf, Bairnsdale, Victoria, circa 1910, The SS Gippsland tied up at the Mitchell River Wharf, Bairnsdale. There is a butter factory in the background. The screw steamer 'Gippsland' was a timber-hulled passenger ferry built by Peter Tierney, at Paynesville, for J.C. Dahlsen & Co., of Bairnsdale, in 1908. It was the largest and fastest steamboat to operate on the Gippsland Lakes with a top speed of 14 knots