RealNZ | TSS Earnslaw Queenstown Cruise
Coal-fired vintage twin-screw steamship cruising an alpine lake, with a working engine room on view.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the TSS Earnslaw at Queenstown's Steamer Wharf is about a ship that keeps a birthday, and the town that has turned up for it since nineteen twelve. It moves between a lakeside holiday in the year she first came into service and a costumed centenary a hundred years later, with the descendants of the men who drew and built her aboard. Listen from the wharf with her funnel in view, then take the stairs down to the engine room.
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