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1974: The superstructure of irreplaceable relic HMVS CERBERUS 35 years ago. Photo Graeme Andrews.
4013. Corrosion attacks the heavily armoured sides of the ship, but her form remains intact. The Kookaburra suspects that many people over the years have looked look at the form of CERBERUS and thought she was a heavil;y-stripped hulk.
Not so, of course. Her late 19th Century Monistor form was simple Century. People thought he guns were missing, but her guns were there, wholly enclosed in her revolving turrets.
When scuttled at Black Rock, CERBERUS was basically the same ship that she had been through 55 years of naval service, to the Victorian Colobnial Navy, the Commonwealth Navy Forces from January 1, 1901, and the RAN that latter became on July 10, 1911.
CERBERUS a port guard and ammunition store ship in Port Phillip Bay during WWI.
We have had several photos of CERBERUS in her prime. A favourite of everybody's is this image of CERBERUS in the Yarra River in 1898, at pic NO. 153, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3847216747/
This 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: The superstructure of irreplaceable relic HMVS CERBERUS 35 years ago. Photo Graeme Andrews.
4013. Corrosion attacks the heavily armoured sides of the ship, but her form remains intact. The Kookaburra suspects that many people over the years have looked look at the form of CERBERUS and thought she was a heavil;y-stripped hulk.
Not so, of course. Her late 19th Century Monistor form was simple Century. People thought he guns were missing, but her guns were there, wholly enclosed in her revolving turrets.
When scuttled at Black Rock, CERBERUS was basically the same ship that she had been through 55 years of naval service, to the Victorian Colobnial Navy, the Commonwealth Navy Forces from January 1, 1901, and the RAN that latter became on July 10, 1911.
CERBERUS a port guard and ammunition store ship in Port Phillip Bay during WWI.
We have had several photos of CERBERUS in her prime. A favourite of everybody's is this image of CERBERUS in the Yarra River in 1898, at pic NO. 153, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3847216747/
This 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