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The Port Phillip Sea Pilots yesterday took delivery of their newest launch, the 40-foot (13-metre) Ranger. Ranger will be the third launch of its type to be commissioned by the pilots and will join the Hawk...
Helicopters could be used to drop pilots into ships waiting to go through the Heads. The helicopters would either land on the ships deck or hover above while the pilot was winched down into the ship. But...
For the first time in this port 4 tugs were needed to berth a mail liner at a Port Melbourne yesterday afternoon when a squally southerly wind held the Mooltan off Station Pier for more than half an hour and a half. The only...
The Sea Heaves to the smothered rumble of a heavy detonation as half a tonne of explosives is fired to deepen the Rip channel between Fort Nepean and Point Lonsdale. Below a suction dredger working inside the heads of Port Phillip Bay removing silt....
Giant liner berths Records easily broken Welcomed by a host of yachts launches and small craft, the new express liner Dominion Monarch berth at Port Melbourne yesterday. After a record-breaking voyage from England. It is estimated that...
After passing 8000 ships through Port Phillip heads Captain Clifford Wilford Palmer looks more distrustfully at the Rip than when he first crossed it. Senior pilot at the Port Phillip Sea Pilot Service Captain Palmer, who...