Queen Bee (steamer)
The Queen Bee in Sydney Harbour | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Queen Bee |
| Owner | Mary Jane Weston (50%), James Manners Dixon (25%), Robert Vernon Saddington (25%) |
| Port of registry | 121174 Sydney |
| Builder | Rock Davis, Blackwall, New South Wales, Australia |
| Completed | 11 June 1907 (registry date) |
| Maiden voyage | 14 June 1907 |
| Fate | Sank 2 September 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Wood carvel Twin screw steamer |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 110 ft 0 in (33.53 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 0 in (7.92 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) |
| Installed power | Compound 31hp |
| Propulsion | Twin 4 Blade Screw |
The Queen Bee was a wooden carvel Twin-screw steamer built in 1907 at the Rock Davis shipyard at Blackwall, New South Wales, that was wrecked when she sprang a leak whilst carrying coal between Newcastle and Sydney. She was lost off Barrenjoey Head, Broken Bay, New South Wales on 2 September 1922.