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Berthing vessel |
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Tasman Chief coming into Flinders for
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Boat Repair Depot at Queenscliff |
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This building is primarily used for the maintenance of the pilot boats and outrigging new hulls. |
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Coxswain in Launch |
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It is the coxswains responsability to deliver a pilot safely to and from vessels. |
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Honour Board |
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The Honour Board records all the pilots and vessels since Port Phillip Sea Pilots started in 1839. Over the years the Board had to be expanded with "wings" to the left and right of the centre main board to accommodate all the pilots. |
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Pilot Launch alongside a vessel |
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A lot of skill on the coxswain's part is necessary to deliver the pilot safely aboard or take him safely off. |
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Pilot Launch |
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A pilot launch going out through The Rip to rendezvous with an incoming vessel. |
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Head Office |
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In 1990 Port Phillip Sea Pilots re-located from the Customs House in Williamstown to 9-11 Blackwood Street North Melbourne. |
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Ladder Specifications |
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A comprehensive card that specifies ladder specifications. |
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Vessel Arriving in Melbourne |
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Tremendous skill is needed from the
pilot to safely bring the vessels in and out of ports safely. Currents, wind
direction and speed can play a major part in navigation. The photo depicts a
container vessel coming up the Yarra River. |
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Satellite photograph of Port Phillip Bay |
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High resolution satellite photo of Port Phillip Bay. |
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Queenscliff Station |
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Queenscliff Station is located at Queenscliff and handles all particulars of assigning pilots to vessels. The front circular room in photograph is the control centre while the remainder of the building provides bedrooms for pilots who need to stay overnight as well as a well appointed kitchen, dinning room and lounge room. |
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Vessel sailing |
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High resolution aerial photograph of a vessel sailing from port. The dredged deep water channels can be clearly seen. |
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Harbour Control - Melbourne |
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Harbour Control in Melbourne is manned 24 hours per day and 7
days per week. All vessel movements are reported to Harbour Control and in
effect acts as a total information post. |
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Macedon In Geelong |
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Tug boats are used primarily to safely
manoeuvre vessels in areas where the vessel itself is not capable using its own
engines. |
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Cutter - Wyuna |
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Pilot Cutter "Wyuna" used to be used prior to the Queenscliff
Pilot Station and modern day launches being built. It was decommissioned in
November 1979. |
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MSC Don Giovanni |
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A typical modern container vessel
steaming down one of the many Port Phillip Bay channels. |
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Pilot Jetty - Queenscliff |
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The Pilot Jetty, located adjacent to the Queenscliff Pilot
Station, is used to pick up and drop down pilots who are going to or from
vessels coming into or leaving Port Phillip Bay. |
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Pilot Launches |
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Pilot launches at their mooring located adjacent to the
Queenscliff Boat Repair Depot. |
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Pilot Launches |
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A different view of pilot launches at their mooring located
adjacent to the Queenscliff Boat Repair Depot. |
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Pilot Launch off Point Lonsdale |
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Pilot launch on its way to the pilot boarding ground, located in
Bass Strait. The Pilot Boarding Ground is the area where pilots are put on board
vessels or taken off. |
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