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The postwar fleet of ex-RAN Fairmile Bs that opened the Barrier Reef to thousands - Colleen Davis, 'Australian Sea Heritage,' Spring 1986, with permission.
4178. In the years between 1949 and the mid-1980s, Mackay Harbour in Queensland often teeemed with converted ex-RAN WWII Fairmile B launches carrying visitors to destinations in the Whitsunday Islands, and to the Great Barrier Reef. Up to 13 ex-wartime Fairmiles worked out of the Harbour, many of them operated by members of the Roylen family. In a special presentation, we offer here an finely researched article by Colleeen Davis which offers many insights into the postwar lives of the WWII Fairmiles built by Halvorsens in Sydney, and those who have owned, loved and operated them.
Article: Colleeen Davis, 'Australian Sea Heritage' quarterly, Spring 1986 edition, reproduced with the author's kind permission.
The postwar fleet of ex-RAN Fairmile Bs that opened the Barrier Reef to thousands - Colleen Davis, 'Australian Sea Heritage,' Spring 1986, with permission.
4178. In the years between 1949 and the mid-1980s, Mackay Harbour in Queensland often teeemed with converted ex-RAN WWII Fairmile B launches carrying visitors to destinations in the Whitsunday Islands, and to the Great Barrier Reef. Up to 13 ex-wartime Fairmiles worked out of the Harbour, many of them operated by members of the Roylen family. In a special presentation, we offer here an finely researched article by Colleeen Davis which offers many insights into the postwar lives of the WWII Fairmiles built by Halvorsens in Sydney, and those who have owned, loved and operated them.
Article: Colleeen Davis, 'Australian Sea Heritage' quarterly, Spring 1986 edition, reproduced with the author's kind permission.