http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/ Maritime History Downunder Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:31:49 GMT Ferries Australia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/776 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/776 Hi Mori, She would look great on the Brisbane River ! Anyone got some spare cash ! Cheers Brett From: maritime_history_downunder@yahoogroups.com Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:17:09 GMT mflapan1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/775 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/775 Dear All Anyone looking for a sea change? I saw this boat for sale on Trade-Me NZ. Hope the link works. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:11:47 GMT T. Browne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/774 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/774 Cerberus is totally unique, both from the Australian & World maritime perspective. Other nations cwould give their eye teeth to have a ship of the importance Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:09:27 GMT sealegless http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/772 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/772 Absolutely agree with the argument for saving cerberus and the very relevant points regarding the expense of dive wrecks. Is there some obscure federal Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:35:05 GMT Austin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/771 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/771 Thanks again br_reef, great photos! There must be a story about the funnel, it was short and squat as built. Austin Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:09:24 GMT Mori Flapan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/770 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/770 Hi Buster Thank you very much for providing the photos. An amazingly tall funnel for a tug built in the 1950s! I rang the number on the advertisement and found Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:26:55 GMT BR_Reef http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/769 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/769 To my knowledge, the last of the nine Australian built Improved Empire Maple Class tugs PURSUIT (exBURROWAREE) was sold from Cairns to the Solomons in December Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:31:52 GMT Austin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/768 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/768 Thank you all for your excellent responses to my inquiry. Especially br_reef, you have added enormously to my knowledge of this vessel. The Ben Shortridge's Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:56:38 GMT BR_Reef http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/767 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/767 BEN SHORTRIDGE was constructed at Newcastle by the State Dockyard from incomplete sections obtained from Poole & Steel Ltd of Balmain - a lengthened/Improved Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:40:04 GMT BR_Reef http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/766 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/766 In recent times (ca2007) the former BEN SHORTRIDGE was at Mackay owned by Kevin English and advertised as the backpacker's accommodation vessel ERIN MARIE. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:26:48 GMT shiprexau http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/765 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/765 Dear Mori and Austin, I believe the name under Wright ownership (as trawler?) was/is merely Investigator. Lindsay Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:50:36 GMT Mori Flapan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/764 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/764 Dear Austin According to Tony Starke's AUS-SHIPS, the Ben Shortridge was owned by A.R.Wright of Newcastle in 1993 and was still in existence in 2000. I looked Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:44:20 GMT T. Browne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/763 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/763 Given that far less than 5% of Australian dive & that if saved & restored Cerberus would be: A great educational tool, a fine tourst attraction & a fitting Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:52:59 GMT Graewin@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/762 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/762 Dear All, Dont know where the tug is but her engines were taken ( I think) to Port Adelaide by the late Keith le Leu as part of his privately-run Austbuilt Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:30:47 GMT Austin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/761 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maritime_history_downunder/message/761 G'Day all, I'm wondering if anyone knows the whereabouts, or fate, of the former steam tug Ben Shortridge. I recall a mention of her being in Ballina in the