Historic Lifeboat Station - Port Fairy, Victoria
Posted by: 
bucketeer
S 38° 23.282 E 142° 14.506
54H E 608448 N 5750400
The only surviving station of this type in Australia, it still houses the original self righting, self draining lifeboat, believed to be oldest remaining example of this type in the world.
Waymark Code: WM8GHG
Location: Victoria, Australia
Date Posted: 03/30/2010
Views: 7
The life boat was built in 1856 at Williamstown.
The lifeboat house was built in 1861 and relocated to the current site in 1873. The boat is kept on a trolley that rolls down rails from the hose to the river to enable very quick launches in the event of an emergency.
Information was taken from this website (
visit link) which also contains images of the boat and house interior.
Name of the Lifeboat or station: Port Fairy Lifeboat Station
Adress:
Griffiths Street
Port Fairy, Vic Australia
Number of the Lifeboat: Not listed
Callsign Marifoon: Not listed
|
Visit Instructions:
Necessary:
Upload with your visit at leat one (1) photo on which the owner of this waymark can see that you have been there. That is easy done by a photo of de surroundings on which also the lifeboat or lifestation is present.
Upload samen met "visit" minstens (1) foto waarop de eigenaar van dit waymark kan zien dat je er geweest bent. Dit kan eenvoudig met een foto van de omgeving waarop ook de reddingsboot of het reddingsstation staat afgebeeld.
Recent Visits/Logs:
| There are no logs for this waymark yet. |
|
|
|