Soundings Board
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 13s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
The soundings board aboard MV Cape Don, used to record the volume of fuel oil, fresh water, and ballast remaining in each tank. MV Cape Don carried fuel and stores for lighthouse stations along Australia's western and northern coastlines.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Soundings Board
- Series
- MV Cape Don
- Catalogue
- MCD-012
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 30 January 2016
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 13s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Balls Head, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
Balls Head, New South Wales, Australia
Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap
A large black soundings board fills the left wall, its white-painted grid listing ballast, fresh water, oil tanks, and bunker levels by port and starboard. The columns are wiped clean. No chalk figures remain. Beside it, a timber pigeonhole rack sits beneath a steel-framed window. Grey light falls across the empty compartments. A rag rests on the top ledge.
Brett Patman
The series
MV Cape Don
MV *Cape Don* is a former Commonwealth Lighthouse Service tender, designed by the Australian Shipping Board and built at the State Dockyard in Newcastle. She was launched on 28 May 1962, commissioned in 1964, and worked the Australian coast until 1990, servicing lighthouses, lightships, and buoys across more than a quarter of a century. Her sister ships were *Cape Moreton* and *Cape Pillar*. Her log includes the 1973 recovery of two of HMS *Investigator*'s anchors from the Recherche Archipelago and the 1979 establishment of the first marine monitoring station in Bass Strait. Decommissioned in 1990, she is now moored at Berry's Bay, Waverton, where the Sea Heritage Foundation is restoring her as a museum and training ship.
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