Pride of The Murray Restoration Fund

  • Produkt kode: POMRC2023
A heartfelt thank you for your help in restoring the historic Pride of the Murray paddlewheeler.

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SAVE AN AUSTRALIAN ICON. SUPPORT VITAL OUTBACK TOURISM


The Pride of the Murray paddlewheeler is one of Australia’s pioneer riverboats and is due to reach her centenary in 2024.



In 2022, she made an incredible overland journey from Echuca to Longreach, which made national news and inspired 3.2 million people on social media. She was lovingly restored by the Kinnon family of Longreach tourism enterprise Outback Pioneers and was attracting hundreds of tourism visitors from around Australia to her Thomson cruises. Then in the early hours of 6 March this year, just before the winter season, she sank in the Thomson river. Outback Pioneers and the Longreach community are determined to restore her again and to invite the country to celebrate her centenary.



What we need


We are on a mission to raise $1.5 million for the restoration. Outback Pioneers think of themselves as custodians of this important part of Australia’s heritage and they want to restore the Pride of the Murray as part of their legacy to Longreach, Echuca and future generations of Australians.

To learn more about the Pride of the Murray please click here