STINKER: Of boats and tragedies: Shining a light on our seafaring early settlers

Key points

• Pioneering families on the Tomaree Peninsula were mostly seafarers or fishers, and boats were central to everyday life. The Lambourne family included fishers and light keepers at Fingal Island.
• In 1905, Henry Eccleston Lambourne Jnr, aged 21, drowned in Providence Bay on Broughton Island while trying to save his mate, Archie Marshall. Their bodies were never found.
• His brother Jack worked a boat called the Simplex, and George skippered two ferries owned by Alf Korsmann of Tea Gardens.