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THE PS CANALLY IS NOW IN THE PORT OF MORGAN

The Port of Morgan will be the new home for PS CANALLY.

After years of hard work by the Rivers and Riverboat Preservation Society Mildura

and The Friends of the PS Canally Robinvale the restoration project will continue in Morgan SA.

 The Canally will be located at the historic Morgan Wharf, the same wharf that it left from in 1925 for the last time.

THE REGISTER ADELAIDE  DECEMBER 3RD 1925

  THE PASSING OF -THE CANALLY.A touching little ceremony was witnessed from the Morgan Wharf at 10o'clock last Thursday morning, when theCanally, a paddle cargo boat, steamed away from the wharf for the last time. The late owner (Capt. W. Tinks).sold her to the New South Wales Government, and in future she will trade from Mildura to Lock 10. Built at Koondrook, near Echuca, 16 years ago, she is still young, and as she draws only three feet of water, she is most suitable for the fluctuating waters of the Murray. For 10 years she traded in wool from Echuca up the Murrumbidgee. Capt. Tinks purchased her in1919. He has greatly improved her, and she has traded for six years between Morgan and Berri. her principal cargo being dried fruits from the fruit Settlements. In all that time Capt. Tinks says  she has never given him five minutes' engine trouble, and her working capacity being 140 horsepower, she is accustomed to towing two  barges capable of holding 300tons, with 60 tons in her own hold, and is one of the best tow boats on the river. During Capt. Tinks's ownership she has been well and faithfully piloted by Messrs. McLean and F. Weaver, with Messrs. Knight and Coghlan engineers. She left the wharf in charge of Capt. Phil Sandford and Engineer Coghlan. Those who gathered on the wharf to bid her a regretful farewell were Capt. Tinks (who felt he was losing a valued and faithful friend),Miss K. Tinks, Messrs. A. L. Dunk(manager for Landseer & Co.), J. Milne(manager for the Murray Shipping Company), Leo Listen (head clerk of the cargo department), and all employees of wharf and railway station, including Mr. Bennett(stationmaster). 

PS CANALLY in MORGAN 1924