The Garthneill was a 1470 ton, three masted barque that was abandoned in the Adelaide Ships Graveyard in 1935. At 238 ft long (72.6m) she was originally named the Inverneill.
On the 6th July 1919 the Garthneill sailed from Melbourne for Bunbury, WA. Battling relentless gales, off Cape Otway the ship was forced south of Tasmania where the skipper, Captain J.H. Shippen, turned east towards Cape Horn. When the vessel eventually arrived in Bunbury on the 29 October she had almost circumnavigated the globe, covering 14,563 NM for the journey that should have been approx. 2000 NM.
In August 1926 the vessel was sold to the Yorke Peninsula Barley Growers Association to become the only floating electric wheat and barley processing mill and silo store ship in Australia. This allowed for quick loading of grain transported by coastal ketch to Port Adelaide and then onto steamers for transportation after milling.
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