The build I'm working on, the 1850's 'Clipper' Tayleur was loaded with 'deck cargo' along with 600 odd passengers.

Among the cargo was a a boat listed as a 'river steamer'.

(Also, a large quantity of headstones, 2 railway carriages with a quantity of track, a prefabricated house and surgery).

I grew-up on the Murray River and when I see 'river steamer' I think of Paddle Steamers, but this, surely, is much more punt like I would think.

So, fellow modellers, I ask, what type/size of vessel would most likely be classed, on a freight bill, as a 'river steamer' in 1854?

Or, more imporatantly, does anyone know where I can get a 1/48th scale model of one, any one.

Thanks

Murray.