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1974: A visit to the irreplaceable 1867 Iron Breastwork Monitor HMVS CERBERUS in 1974 by Graeme Andrews. Photo GKA.
4012. The particular point of this short series is look at the condition of the irreplaceable relic as she was 35 years ago.
Designed by the E.J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the HM Navy, specifically for the defence of the gold boom city of Melbourne, the 3,340 ton iron breastwork turret ship HMVS CERBERUS was laid down at Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Co Ltd at Jarrow on Tyne on Sept. 1, 1867, and completed in 1870. With a freeboard of less than four feet [she was designed to protectively submerge up to her turrets during battle] the ships sides were built up for her voyage to Australia, and she arrived on April 7, 1981.
We have canvassed the ship's career, and the struggle to save this truly historic maritime relic number of times. The purpose of this series is to look at her condition when Photostream contributor and maritime journalist and author Graeme Andrews visited CERBERUS in 1974 at Half Moon Bay in the bayside Melbourbne suburb of Black Rock.
CERBERUS was scuttled in shallow water there on September 2, 1926 to form a breakwater, and has been deteriorating ever since. This is the once revolutionary vessel, now in her 141st year, looked 35 years ago, when Graeme was aboard.
Photo Graeme Andrews RAN 1955-1968, RANR 1980. From a private disc, with permission.
A COMPENDIUM of links to 35+ HMVS CERBERUS images on the Photostream can be found under entry NO. 5848, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/7253528494/in/photostream
1974: A visit to the irreplaceable 1867 Iron Breastwork Monitor HMVS CERBERUS in 1974 by Graeme Andrews. Photo GKA.
4012. The particular point of this short series is look at the condition of the irreplaceable relic as she was 35 years ago.
Designed by the E.J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the HM Navy, specifically for the defence of the gold boom city of Melbourne, the 3,340 ton iron breastwork turret ship HMVS CERBERUS was laid down at Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Co Ltd at Jarrow on Tyne on Sept. 1, 1867, and completed in 1870. With a freeboard of less than four feet [she was designed to protectively submerge up to her turrets during battle] the ships sides were built up for her voyage to Australia, and she arrived on April 7, 1981.
We have canvassed the ship's career, and the struggle to save this truly historic maritime relic number of times. The purpose of this series is to look at her condition when Photostream contributor and maritime journalist and author Graeme Andrews visited CERBERUS in 1974 at Half Moon Bay in the bayside Melbourbne suburb of Black Rock.
CERBERUS was scuttled in shallow water there on September 2, 1926 to form a breakwater, and has been deteriorating ever since. This is the once revolutionary vessel, now in her 141st year, looked 35 years ago, when Graeme was aboard.
Photo Graeme Andrews RAN 1955-1968, RANR 1980. From a private disc, with permission.
A COMPENDIUM of links to 35+ HMVS CERBERUS images on the Photostream can be found under entry NO. 5848, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/7253528494/in/photostream