- Owner(s)
- SteamShip Cartela Trust (Ross James - Project Manager)
- Type
- River Steamer
- LOA
- 123'
- LOD
- 123'
- LWL
- 123'
- Beam
- 26'
- Draft
- 8'
- Max Draft
- 9'6"
- Displacement
- Light ship 190 tons: Gross 260 tons
- ARHV number
- HV000237
- Designer
- Alfred Blore and Thomas Purdon
- Builder
- Purdon and Featherstone - Battery Point, Hobart
- Year launched
- 1912, maiden voyage New Year Day 1913
- Where launched
- Battery Point, Hobart.
- Normal location
- Hobart. Currently laid up in Franklin on the Huon River.
- Construction materials
- Hull; Blue Gum frame, N.Z. Kauri planking, Steel Keelson and Sister Keelsons. Coach House; NZ Kauri Celery Top and Huon Pine. Mast; Celery Top
- Construction type
- Carvel. 5" by 2 3/4" thick planks with iron fasteners and cotton caulking.
- Hull form
- Monohull, vertical bow, canoe stern, main deck and upper deck. Main mast for cargo derrick.
- Propulsion
- Plenty and Sons, triple expansion, undergoing complete refurbishment. Currently 340 hp Caterpillar diesel.
- Motor type
- Steam powered with original engine installed in 1912. Boiler specification and fuel yet to be defined.
- Motor power
- At 180 p.s.i boiler pressure, power output of engine will be close to 500 h.p.
- Rig type
- 35' main mast for cargo handling.
- Ownership period
- SteamShip Cartela Trust was created in 2012 to accept the gift of Cartela from the owners Roche Brothers.
- Previous owner(s)
- Original owner was the Huon, Channel and Peninsular Steam Ship Company and was purchased by Roche Brothers in 1952.
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