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Ca. 1903: HMCS CERBERUS in Commonwealth service, with re-arrangement of secondary weapons - Courtesy John Lyall.
5856. Responding to our recent series on the historic breastwork monitor HMVS/HMCS/HMAS CERBERUS, and the latest threat to her preservation and survival at Black Rock, Victoria, Contributor John Lyall has sent us this excellent image which has several instructive points of interest.
With its clarity and the ship's presentation, we at first thought the photo may have been contemporaneous with the Nov. 30, 1898 image that we had way back at Pic NO. 153, but with which we now wish to make some comparative points of difference. Pic 1153 is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3847216747/
First, notice the fighting top which previously stood half-way up the foremast is lowered to ts base, astern of a searchlight platform. Secondly, notice that the shielded Maxim Nordenfeldt 6-pounder quick firing guns have now been moved from the waist between the breatwork deck turrets to both ends of the upper deck, where they have now replaced the two Nodelfeldt foiurbarrelled one-inch machine guns that poreviously strood there. CERBERUS has the Australian flag adopted at Federation on her bow.
CORRECTION, looking at the 'fighting top' or crowsnest we find it lowered in the Nov 30, 1898 Pic at entry NO. 5844 here.
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/7248237468/in/photostream
Out mistake stems from a reference elsewhere, but we are now of the opinion that it could be raised and lowered.
In an y event, this is a magnificent photo of CERBERUS - thanks John. A further reminder here of the Friends of CERBERUS group's appeal for history and heritage-minded people to write to Ministers and their MPs about the new threat to CERBERUS's survival. The need, and addresses to write can be found here:
www.cerberus.com.au/cgi-bin/newsscript/newsscript.pl?reco...
Photo: courtesy John Lyall.
A compendium of links to the Photostream's 35+ images of HMVS CERBERUS can be found Pic NO. 5848, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/7253528494/in/photostream
Ca. 1903: HMCS CERBERUS in Commonwealth service, with re-arrangement of secondary weapons - Courtesy John Lyall.
5856. Responding to our recent series on the historic breastwork monitor HMVS/HMCS/HMAS CERBERUS, and the latest threat to her preservation and survival at Black Rock, Victoria, Contributor John Lyall has sent us this excellent image which has several instructive points of interest.
With its clarity and the ship's presentation, we at first thought the photo may have been contemporaneous with the Nov. 30, 1898 image that we had way back at Pic NO. 153, but with which we now wish to make some comparative points of difference. Pic 1153 is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3847216747/
First, notice the fighting top which previously stood half-way up the foremast is lowered to ts base, astern of a searchlight platform. Secondly, notice that the shielded Maxim Nordenfeldt 6-pounder quick firing guns have now been moved from the waist between the breatwork deck turrets to both ends of the upper deck, where they have now replaced the two Nodelfeldt foiurbarrelled one-inch machine guns that poreviously strood there. CERBERUS has the Australian flag adopted at Federation on her bow.
CORRECTION, looking at the 'fighting top' or crowsnest we find it lowered in the Nov 30, 1898 Pic at entry NO. 5844 here.
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/7248237468/in/photostream
Out mistake stems from a reference elsewhere, but we are now of the opinion that it could be raised and lowered.
In an y event, this is a magnificent photo of CERBERUS - thanks John. A further reminder here of the Friends of CERBERUS group's appeal for history and heritage-minded people to write to Ministers and their MPs about the new threat to CERBERUS's survival. The need, and addresses to write can be found here:
www.cerberus.com.au/cgi-bin/newsscript/newsscript.pl?reco...
Photo: courtesy John Lyall.
A compendium of links to the Photostream's 35+ images of HMVS CERBERUS can be found Pic NO. 5848, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/7253528494/in/photostream