Engine Order Telegraph Size:XL housing dressing rooms

housing dressing rooms

the complex operated for 96 years before closing in May 1999

Part of the Peters' Ice Cream Factory series

when CSR Construction Materials ended nearly a century of dolerite extraction on the site

Engine Order Telegraph Size:XL housing dressing roomsThe internal circuits of the engine order telegraph aboard MV Cape Don, the instrument that transmitted speed commands from the bridge to the engineers below. Signal flag pigeon holes sit to its left. Built at State Dockyard, Newcastle, and completed in January 1963, Cape Don served the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service for 27 years before retiring in 1990. Part of the MV Cape Don series.