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The Time Detective
A Genealogically Led History of the Dredge Groper (64 pages)
A Genealogically Led History of the Dredge Groper (64 pages)
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64 Page PDF File - The author’s 2nd great grandfather, William Smith Binnie, was born in Glasgow in 1851 where he trained as a marine engineer. He worked for a Glasgow firm of shipbuilders called Thomas Wingate & Company which specialised in building marine dredges. The firm won the contract to build the dredge Groper for the Queensland Government in 1875, completing the vessel in 1876. William was an engineer on the crew that delivered her to Australia and the following narrative explains how the dredge Groper became the subject of an international political dispute. It also describes William’s role in these events and how he settled in Brisbane, built a marine engineering business called W S Binnie & Sons, and eventually sold it to Evans Deakin, an engineering company that became one, if not the, most significant engineering business in Queensland.
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