Forecastle and Crane Cabin technology and forgotten machinery

and forgotten machinery

with the base of the starboard general service pump in the foreground and fuel oil pumps at left

Conveyor Drive End at Wangi Wangi

its barrel-vaulted ceiling held by steel truss ribs that survived what the rest of the building did not

Forecastle and Crane Cabin technology and forgotten machineryThe well deck of MV Cape Don opens toward the forecastle, with the Clarke Chapman of England crane at left, rated to 12. 5 tons and used for loading cargo, navigation buoys, and LARC amphibious vehicles. Built at State Dockyard, Newcastle, and completed in January 1963, Cape Don served the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service for 27 years before retiring in 1990. The sole surviving Cape Class vessel, she remains berthed at Balls Head Bay, Waverton. Part of