Steering Gear Size:XL caught in 2015 not long

caught in 2015 not long before demolition

their corrugated iron roofs streaked with rust and their frames bowing under decades of weather

This is the interior of a working woolshed: a vast

its corroded steel frame still holding remnants of glass

Company housing at the settlement was stratified by rank

Steering Gear Size:XL caught in 2015 not longThe steering gear room of MV Cape Don, built by Brown Brothers of Scotland, converts electrical signals from the bridge into hydraulic pressure to move the rudder. It sits below decks on a vessel launched at the State Dockyard, Newcastle on 28 May 1962, and operated for 27 years as a lighthouse supply tender for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service. Part of the MV Cape Don series.