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Patrick Mayne purchased the Ship Inn at Queen’s Wharf for £1,100 in 1859. Located on allotment no. 7 and immediately adjacent to the Queen’s Wharf Reserve, the Ship Inn was the last name given to a small hotel located on this site. It proved to be not the best investment for the usually astute Mayne. Within five years of him acquiring it, the Ship Inn had fallen in the river. The name Ship Inn was given the following decade to another, entirely unconnected hotel in Stanley Street, South Brisbane.