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P.S. Pevensey was built at the Moama slipway in 1911. She is named after a sheep property on the Murrumbidgee River called Pevensey Station. In the old days P.S. Pevensey carried 120 tons of cargo. The Pevensey collected bales of wool from station properties and brought them to the Echuca wharf. At the Port of Echuca the wool was loaded onto trains and taken to Melbourne for shipping overseas. Beneath the front and back decks there are large spaces called holds, in which the cargo is stored. The cargo can be piled so high that it is up to the wheelhouse. The Pevensey can carry 815 bales of wool and a total of 2000 bales when barges are towed along behind. Today she operates as a tourist boat. We boarded her for a cruise to Morrisons Winery.