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Prism Magazine A U G U S T 2 0 1 8 | I S S U E N O . 2 | L I G H T H O U S E S . O R G . A U P R I S M M A G A Z I N E LIGHTHOUSES OF CALOUNDRA PHOTOGRAPHERS By Dirk Selderyk VENTURE TO CAPE LIGHTHOUSE SUPPLY SHIP RESURRECTED CLEVELAND LIGHTHOUSE By Linda Morris LIGHTHOUSES OF FINISTÉRE BY PETER BRAID By Denise Schultz AFTERNOON LIGHT: Cape Cleveland in the afternoon sun. COVER: Cape Cleveland in all its lit up glory one starry night. FROM THE CONTENTS Photos: Matt Barneveld. EDITOR pg.2 LIGHTHOUSE SUPPLY SHIP RESURRECTED AS It's cold outside, the heater is on...what better time than now to be picking up a fresh copy Prism. A FLOATING MUSEUM BY LINDA MORRIS I hope those of you who went to the AGM had a A floating museum that tells a unique story from our past, wonderful time in Brisbane. Editing the Caloundra manned by volunteers for a gold coin donation. story made me a little jealous I couldn't swing the pg.4 time off work to get there too. LIGHTHOUSES OF CALOUNDRA This edition features a collection of lighthouse BY DIRK SELDERYK related bits and pieces from around the country and After the AGM this year, lighthouse enthusiasts took a trip to as far away as France. Rather than a couple of big Caloundra to visit a couple of Queensland's iconic lights. features, I've had lots of smaller contributions this pg.6 time around, which has been great. It gives a real sense of what those of us passionate about AGM REPORT 2018 BY LOA SECRETARY lighthouses have been getting up to these past few BENJAMIN SAYERS months. Didn't make it to the AGM? No worries. Secretary Benjamin Sayers walks us through the weekend and its activities along From organising birthday celebrations for lights, to with changes to the committee. taking photography trips, to setting up floating pg.8 maritime museums! The one I would encourage you all to take a closer PHOTOGRAPHERS VENTURE TO CAPE look at is the 200th anniversary celebrations of the CLEVELAND LIGHTHOUSE BY PETER BRAID Macquarie lighthouse in Sydney. We often imagine A group of keen lighthouse photographers went on an adventure to lighthouses as being perched on a far isolated tip of Cape Cleveland in Queenland to capture the lighthouse in all its the coast, however this one is just a stones throw day and night glory with some outstanding results. away from the biggest city in the country. pg.10 It also guards one of our national treasures- Sydney INTERNATIONAL FOCUS: LIGHTHOUSES OF Harbour. This year it will be the bicentenary of this FINISTÉRE, PART 1 BY DENISE SHULTZ lighthouse and everyone is welcome to join the Denise takes us on a fascinating tour of French lighthouses in the celebrations. It will be an important and historic time. Brittany region of France. Also in this edition, we take a trip with Denise Schultz to Brittany in France, where some of the pg.12 most isolated lighthouses in the world are perched. MACQUARIE LIGHTHOUSE CELEBRATES 200 Please continue to send in contributions whether it YEARS be photos, stories or just links to interesting One of Australia's best known and iconic lighthouses is information. celebrating its bicentenary later this year. Enjoy the magazine, make the most of winter, stay pg.13 safe and keep your eyes peeled for the next edition BRIBIE ISLAND LIGHT REMOVED which will feature all the details from the bicentenary BY JESSICA CLIFFORD celebrations. If you are going, send me some photos It had been there for 30 years, then it was gone. Bribie Island to [email protected]! light has been removed and replaced. pg.14 Jessica Clifford Editor INTERNATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE HERITAGE WEEKEND BY PAULINE O'BRIEN Lighthouse supply ship resurrected as floating museum Lighthouse supply ship resurrected as floating museum by Linda Morris I've grown up on board, it's shaped who I am A new set of stairs were designed and Far from the sandstone mile of Macquarie and Rusted and vandalised, its wheel, engine room and it's my second family." installed on the catwalk to give safer access College Streets lie Sydney's tiny treasure houses. telegraph and other irreplaceable fittings had been Built in 1962 at the NSW State Dockyards in for volunteers and visitors. Housing eclectic collections, often manned by stolen and transmitters and receivers stripped Newcastle, for the Commonwealth The first phase has been to progressively enthusiastic volunteers who keep the doors open from the radio room. The cabins, however, Lighthouse Service, the 72-metre long steel open the Don for people to see. From June for no more than a gold coin donation, these remained in immaculate condition right down to ship carried supplies and officials, 3 it is opening every second Sunday – tours museums tell unique stories from our past. No the authentic curtains and furnishings. technicians, relief lighthouse crews and their at 11 and 1pm for $10 donation – and crowds. No lines. No interactive gee-whiz Daniel Callender, one of a group of enthusiastic families up and down the WA coast. Later in conducting special tours. installations, marketing plans and deep pocketed volunteers giving up their weekends to restore the its life it worked along the Tasmanian and As more of the ship is restored, the Sea patrons in these quarters. This is the first of a vessel as a floating museum and training vessel, some parts of the eastern coast. Heritage Foundation is looking at ways to Herald series that will feature examples of the first spied the ship when he was not yet 16 years With the advent of satellite navigation and make the museum commercially viable with spirit that guides some of the 350 community- old. automation, lighthouses were progressively film set hire and its use as a training vessel based museums and the precious collections they Twelve years later he is the ship's full-time keeper. automated and in 1990 the MV Cape Don for government and private operators. protect. "The volunteers are passionate about preserving made its last trip. How far the project is from final completion Berthed at the former coal loading wharf at Balls the history of the lighthouse service and feel that Purchased from the Commonwealth, it was is too hard to judge, says Callender, who Head, Waverton, the lighthouse supply vessel MV the ship's history is an untold tale, and when you sent to the Solomon Islands, then stranded in concedes it might take many years. Cape Don looked nothing like the sleek mini-liner it are doing work you can have a good chat with a 1998 on the Clarence River as a result of a Thousands of man-hours have gone into the was in the late 1960s servicing lighthouses and friend – it's great camaraderie. financial dispute. In a midnight flit, its crew restoration already. buoys strung along the Western Australian coast. sailed it to Sydney where it sat at Balls Head The next stage is to bring The Don's boat until late 2002 when the daughter of an old deck and starboard bridge wing back to new, crew member saw a newspaper article to make the ship completely watertight and warning of its possible demise. A Canberra build a purpose-built storage area to hold a resident eventually purchased it, set up a growing collection of photographs, drawings trust and donated it to the Sea Heritage and machinery manuals, uniforms, models, Foundation, therefore saving one of the last flags and plaques dating to the early days of surviving examples of 1960s Australian the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service. design and shipbuilding. "We are looking for donations and sponsors Had the vessel, one of the last surviving so we can put the ship in the dock for a well Australian coastal navigation-aid service deserved clean and repair. Our main aim, vessels still afloat, not been rescued, apart from restoring the ship, is getting the Callender is sure the MV Cape Don would word out there to recruit more volunteers. have been declared an eyesore and sent to a We have an active crew of 20, and it's a watery grave. good mix. We have an ex-army marine The restoration has been a challenge. In the engineer, a retired electrician and we've got early days, a rope ladder was required to get people who work as engineers and shore on board until the gangway was restored. staff for the ferries. The more hands we Months were spent designing and building a have, the more that can be accomplished." temporary steel framework topped with hardwood planks to span a six-metre gash in This article first appeared in the Sydney the seawall catwalk caused by the collapse of Morning Herald, June 3 2018. a gantry. Labour of love: MV Cape Don is now open to the public at Balls Head, Waverton. Photo: Steven Siewert. 2 3 Lighthouses of Caloundra Lighthouses of Caloundra words and photos by Dirk Selderyk It was converted to an automatic electric operation The Old Caloundra Head Lighthouse remains the in 1942. The original lighthouse was attended by a oldest building in Caloundra’s Township. single keeper living in the adjacent cottage named Construction started in March 1896 together with 'Valhalla'. He was also the towns postmaster and two lighthouses on nearby Bribie Island along with telegrapher. their keeper's cottages. It was officially lit in September 1896. The forth The New Caloundra Lighthouse.
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