User:Hbhare2/Miallo

The Miallo an auxilliary schooner was thirty feet in length and carried a cargo gross of eight tons which gave her a freeboard of one foot. She was powered by a kerosene engine made by Invincible and was situated toward the stern leaving the forwartd area for below and above deck cargo. Steering was by means of tiller and no crew accommodation was provided, which meant the crew remained on deck in all weathers. The vessel was built by S.H.Ogilvie in Cairns North Queensland during the 1920's for brothers Laurie and Bert Rutherford. The "Miallo" worked as a general carrier between the port of Cairns and the ports of Mossman and Saltwater Creek. The vessel as named for the small township of the same name north of Mossman North Queenasalnd. "Miallo"s working lifeencompassed the 1920's to the mid 1930's when the completion of the Captain Cook Highway between Cairns and Mossman put paid to carriage by small seagiong vessels over the same route.