Steering Gear
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 15s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
The steering gear room of MV Cape Don, built by Brown Brothers of Scotland. Electrical signals from the bridge are converted into hydraulic pressure to steer the vessel. The ship was launched at the State Dockyard Newcastle on 28 May 1962.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Steering Gear
- Series
- MV Cape Don
- Catalogue
- MCD-013
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 30 January 2016
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 15s 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
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Balls Head, New South Wales, Australia
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Heavy steel machinery fills a tight compartment below deck. A large cylindrical hydraulic unit sits centre frame, its cream paint blackened with grease and age. Red hydraulic lines curve upward through a tangle of valves, gauges, and pipework. To the left, a bolted flange plate sits flush with the deck, its studs thick with rust. Green anti-slip paint still clings to the floor in patches. The air in here would taste of oil and iron.
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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