Excelsior 1897 - 1945 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/18/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Ships Graveyard - Walk round, or if your lucky, it could be a drive by in a boat.

EXCELISOR 1897 -1945
After many years service in the Pacific and South Australian waters, the steamer Excelsior was converted for lightering coal to the steam-powered dredges working on Port Adelaide. In 1945 it was laid up and abandoned in a tidal creek at Mutton Cove. Today the rusting vessel is a predominant feature east of Outer Harbor. The bow is intact but sections of the stern have collapsed.

In the 1940s Mutton Cove, at the northern end of Leferve Peninsula, was the abandonment site for two derelict vessels - an iron steamer (Excelsior) and a composite ex-Murray paddler (Jupiter).

Today the area is a samphire swamp, isolated from the Port River and adjacent industries by reclamation and embankments.

JUPITER 1866- 1940 (I couldn't find this one)
The composite paddler Jupiter was the last mail steamer on the Murray Lakes. In 1933 it was brought to Port Adelaide and converted into Australia's first floating crayfish depot, but was eventually abandoned at Mutton Cove in the 1940s. Today the hull is basically intact to deck level, but is predominantly covered by silt and water. Some detached iron superstructure is lying of the stern.

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