Forecastle and Crane Cabin montana its concrete walls and steel

its concrete walls and steel frames showing the wear of decades of active quarrying

light pressing through gaps in the aged roof to fall across the worn floor below

A wire mesh cage encloses a section of the former O-I Glass factory at Spotswood

Photographed 2016

debris covers the timber floor below

Forecastle and Crane Cabin montana its concrete walls and steelThe well deck of MV Cape Don opens toward the forecastle, with the Clarke Chapman of England crane at left, rated to 12. 5 tons and used for loading cargo, navigation buoys, and LARC amphibious vehicles. Built at State Dockyard, Newcastle, and completed in January 1963, Cape Don served the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service for 27 years before retiring in 1990. The sole surviving Cape Class vessel, she remains berthed at Balls Head Bay, Waverton. Part of