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Managing Organization:
Australian National Maritime Museum
Website: http://www.anmm.gov.au/inwater.htm#carpentaria
Notes:
This light vessel was built at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney in 1917 and went out of active service in 1983. While active it served in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Breaksea Spit near Sandy Cape, Queensland, and in Bass Strait. The vessel was unmanned and had an automatic acetylene-fueled light.
This light is not operational
Date Established: 1917
Date Deactivated: 1983
Current Use: Museum Exhibit.
Open To Public? Grounds only.
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