A. B. Portus
Sydney: The Builder Printing Works, 1905.

A paper on early steam boats in Australia by Alexander Brown Portus (1834-1905), late Superintending Engineer of Dredges for the Public Works Department of New South Wales, read before the Australian Historical Society, 30th June, 1904. Describes the ships, their arrivals, movements, events, repairs, wrecks, and other historical minutiae, largely in New South Wales, but also of their movement and events in Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, and New Zealand.