Alexander Arbuthnot is the last paddle steamer built as a working boat during the riverboat trade era on the Murray River, Australia.

The engine was built by Richard Hornsby & sons, Grantham Lincolnshire, England and imported for Melbourne's Centennial international exhibition of 1888–89, and later installed in the paddle steamer Glimpse in 1889, then re-used in Alexander Arbuthnot in 1923.

In July 1942, it was reported that the Arbuthnot returned from Picola to unload 700 bags (over 15 tons) of coal to a railway truck at the Echuca wharf - an activity that hadn't been seen in several years.

[2] The paddle steamer remained partially submerged for an extended period of time, and as a result the deckhouse was destroyed.

It was restored at Echuca in 1991 by local shipwright Kevin Hutchison,[9] including new hull decking and planking, a new deckhouse, and a new boiler.