OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Excursion Steamers 'Ozone', 'Weeroona' and 'Hygiea'

DATE1890

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.880

HISTORY

The ‘Weroona’, ‘Ozone’ and ‘Hygeia’ regularly visited Mornington and travelled around the Bay carrying
passengers
The voyage from Melbourne to Mornington took more than one and a half hours and was enlivened by the
music of band and refreshments which each vessel carried on board

DESCRIPTION

A man in a fishing boat anchored to a buoy watches the excursion steamers, 'Ozone', 'Weeroona' and 'Hygiea' travel past him in the bay (similar to image 842)

SUBJECTS

Boats, Excursions, Fishing, Water

KEYWORDS

Boats, Excursions, Fishing, Hygiea, Ozone, Water, Weeroona