Propeller Shaft electrical only eight years after it

only eight years after it opened

the last surviving remnant of the brick-producing belt that once ran from Hawthorn to Mitcham

Cape Don operated for 27 years as a Commonwealth Lighthouse Service tender before retiring in 1990

dust coating its plastic and metal fittings after years of disuse

Alarm Indicator Panel at Wangi Wangi

Propeller Shaft electrical only eight years after itThe propeller shaft of MV Cape Don, photographed looking aft, with the actuator assembly for the Kamewa variable pitch propeller mounted on top and spare parts flanking both sides. The shaft drove a single 4 blade propeller approximately 2. 6 m in diameter, weighing 5 tonnes, pushed by a 5 cylinder Polar diesel producing 2,000 BHP. Part of the MV Cape Don series.