Main Engine interior the surrounding plaster crumbling

the surrounding plaster crumbling

records the end of a processing line that once ran a NIRO spray-drying plant capable of 1 tonne per hour

timber-frame homes lining the road

Cape Don operated for 27 years as a Commonwealth Lighthouse Service tender before retiring in 1990

photographed in 2015 before demolition

Main Engine interior the surrounding plaster crumblingThe 5 cylinder 2 stroke Polar diesel fills the right of the engine room, its 2,000 BHP frame built in Australia under licence from NOHAB of Sweden. To the left, the ship's service generator, British built by Mirrlees. Further down the space, the main lube pumps. MV Cape Don served the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service from 1963 to 1990, the sole surviving Cape Class vessel. Part of the MV Cape Don series.