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The
Polly Woodside is a three masted sailing barque with an external cladding of
iron plates. She was launched from the yards of Workman Clark in Belfast in
1885. Her early years were in general cargo, including the nitrate trade
between the UK and South America. She made her first voyage to Australia in
1900 and was bought by New Zealand interests in 1904 and renamed
Rona. She
operated mainly between New Zealand and Australia often carrying cargoes of
timber.
The PWVA
The Polly Woodside Volunteers' Association (PWVA) is an incorporated body
set up in the 1970s to represent the volunteers who maintain the world-famous
iron barque
Polly Woodside, the Duke and Orr's dry-dock, the pump-house
and the maritime museum site on the Yarra
River in Melbourne.