Red Jacket Mine
Item Number: 2814
Red Jacket Mine. “Red Jacket owed its name to a sailing ship of the White Star Line, which won brief fame by securing the record for sailing from England to Australia in sixty-nine days. The ship carried many of the diggers to Victoria in search of gold on the diggings.” Reference; Owen F. Tomlin, Marysusan Bosam, Peter G. Chamberlain, “Gold for the Finding – A Pictorial History of Gippsland’s Jordan Goldfield”, page 102, first published 1979 by Hill of Content Publishing Company Pty Ltd.