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Goods Island, located between Cape York and New Guinea and close to Thursday Island, is said to have been named by Captain Matthew Flinders, whilst traveling through the region. The name is said to have been bestowed in honor of his gardener/botanist on the voyage, Peter Good. Over time, the present spelling of Goods came into more common usage, giving us the present name of the island. Goods Island was identified from as early as the 1880s as an ideal location for a lighthouse, particularly in view of the increases in shipping at the time. A light at Goods Island, it was argued, would point out the position of the entrance to Normanby Sound and the Prince of Wales Channel, thereby improving safety for shipping. As a result, a temporary light was put in place in 1883 and maintained as part of the pilot station. The Queensland government Port master at that time, George Poynter Heath was however soon arguing for a more powerful light to be put in place, on a permanent basis. Source; www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/queensland-places-goods-island

Pearling Luggers of the Torres Strait By Christina Ealing-Godbold, Research Librarian, Information Services | 19 November 2014 Typically, a pearling lugger had two or three divers, two or three tenders to operate the air pumps, a cook, an engineer, and two sailing crew. The divers, who were mostly Japanese, risked their lives in rubberised canvas suits, heavy boots laden with lead, and helmets with thick glass. The divers were paid according to the amount of shell they collected, so every minute on the bottom was precious. Their lives were in the hands of the tenders above, who operated the air pumps to keep them alive. Initially, pearl shell was easily located in shallow waters. However, by 1871, a diving suit was designed, allowing access down to 20 fathoms. As the pearl shell was collected over many years, the remaining shell deposits were at increasingly greater depths, and by the end of the 1930s, divers were going down to 40 fathoms in areas such as the Darnley Deeps. Few Australians could be attracted to the perilous occupation of pearl diving. The bends killed many of the divers, as did shark attacks. In 1916, the official death rate in workplaces in Queensland was reported as 1.1% of the workforce, contrasting with the 10% quoted for pearl divers. Cyclones were also a threat to the safety of the pearling fleets, with one cyclone in1899 sinking more than 50 luggers, and killing 300 men. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/pearling-luggers-torres-strait

Lugger Ship type Article A lugger is a sailing vessel defined by its rig, using the lugsail on all of its one or several masts. They were widely used as working craft, particularly off the coasts of France, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Luggers varied extensively in size and design. Many were undecked, open boats, some of which operated from beach landings (such as Hastings or Deal). Others were fully decked craft (typified by the Zulu and many other sailing drifters). Some larger examples might carry lug topsails.[1] Reaper, a Fifie, a type of sailing drifter built in the Northeast of Scotland Luggers were used extensively for smuggling from the middle of the 18th century onwards; their fast hulls and powerful rigs regularly allowed them to outpace any Revenue vessel in service. The French three-masted luggers also served as privateers and in general trade. As smuggling declined about 1840, the mainmast of three-masted luggers tended to be discarded, with larger sails being set on the fore and mizzen. This gave more clear space in which to work fishing nets.[2]: 15–19  Australia Some of the early pearling luggers used off the northern coastline of Australia from about the 1870s, often ship's boats, carried a lugsail, but the purpose-built boats that were used from the 1880s stopped using it over time. The majority of these were gaff-rigged ketches, although they continued to be called pearling luggers until the present day. Source: wikidocumentaries-demo.wmflabs.org/Q783186?language=en

In one of the South Pacific Studies titled: "A Fleeting Aquapelago: A Theoretical Consideration of the Japanese Presence in the Torres Strait The 1880s-1940s by HAYWARD Philip and KONISHI Junko The lugger Trenton was mentioned as a place for exchanging cultural traditions between Japanese and Torres Strait people between pearling sessions: One of our 1999 informants, Yuzuru Kuhara, from Izumo village in Wakayama (now part of Kushimoto city), recalled that a group of his fellow Izumo crew members working on the lugger Trenton made a point of learning Torres Strait songs and dances and even performed these at festivals in Japan in the late 1940s after their repatriation from Australia.