The SV May Queen

The SV May Queen is Australia's oldest sail trading vessel still afloat.
She carried timber and supplies for over 106 years and is one of four wooden vessels of her era still afloat in the world.
She is older than the well-known SV Cutty Sark.

The SV May Queen was built on the banks of the Huon River at Franklin in the south of Tasmania in 1867.
Fitted with a retractable centreboard, the SV May Queen is 21 metres long, 5.3 meters wide and has a draft of 1.5 meters when fully laden with 25,000 super feet of sawn timber (50 tonnes).

Her hull is of Tasmanian blue gum and stringy bark, her deck is of Tasmanian Celery top pine and her spars are of imported oregon.