Propeller Shaft electrical Cape Don operated for 27

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

Turbine at Rozelle

The room sits within the Edwardian pavilion-plan complex on Kings Tableland

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

light pressing through grimy windows to settle across layers of dust and industrial residue

Propeller Shaft electrical Cape Don operated for 27The 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.