Steering Gear wildlife its walls deep with rust

its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure

A massive pot sits inside the Port Kembla Steelworks

The workshop sits within a Federation and Inter-War period industrial complex that once drove production of approximately 40% of Australia's Portland cement by 1912

Bucket Conveyor at Bathurst

Steering Gear wildlife its walls deep with rustThe steering gear room of MV Cape Don, built by Brown Brothers of Scotland, converts electrical signals from the bridge into hydraulic pressure to move the rudder. It sits below decks on a vessel launched at the State Dockyard, Newcastle on 28 May 1962, and operated for 27 years as a lighthouse supply tender for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service. Part of the MV Cape Don series.