Unprinted photo titled Stern Warning depicting the wreck of the George Rennie at the Northern end of Picnic Bay, Magnetic Island looking out across Cleveland Bay. Photographed on a Shen-hao HZX 4X5-IIA Field Camera, .5mm pinhole lens @ f/296, 10min on Polaroid 55p/n film.
Originally, this steel hulled paddle steamer is reported to have been built in Middlesex, England as a 151 gross ton vessel in 1885. Later in 1896 the ship was bought by the shipping company Howard Smith & Sons and then transformed into a lighter and used between West Point (Magnetic Island) and Townsville. It was finally beached in 1902 at at the Northern end of Picnic Bay to be used as a breakwater for a small jetty.
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