Heritage and conservation register

The hull is made up of timber planking fixed to 7 timber frames that run along the length of the vessel. The timber decking has a 50mm camber running from the middle to the fore and to the aft. The base and sides are fleated with galvanised iron over bituminous felt.

The ferry operates between floating landing stages which are attached to each bank. The position of the landing stages is adjusted by hand winch to suit the level of flow of the river. The landing stage construction is similar to that of the ferry. The ferry appears to have been modified to suit docking with the landing stages.

Near the head of the completed Lake Hume lay the village of Wymah. Wymah had developed in the mind-nineteenth century as a service centre for the sheep and cattle stations which were the successors of the original Wagra and Bungil runs of the 1830s and for the agriculture which was pursued in more favoured spots. The district was populous enough to warrant a public school at Wymah from 1873 onwards until 1985 with a gap between 1946 and 1952. There was a ferry across the Murray to link Wymah with Granya in Victoria, probably from the nineteenth century. In 1945 Lake Hume was exceptionally low and the exposed pastures dried up in the long hot summer. The Murray virtually ceased to flow and the old Wymah ferry was grounded. A new ferry boat was designed and approved in May 1945 and successfully launched in 1946 after the river and the dam had recovered. This is the ferry which is still operating.