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MELBOURNE: Victorian Roads and Ports Minister Geoff Craige’s wife, Anette, stole the limelight from her husband on Sunday when she took the helm of Port Phillip Sea Pilot’s sleek new launch, Hawk IV. Mrs Craige, who...
Tom Delaney, rewarded for heroic rescue RESCUING people from the sea is second nature to well-knows Flinders identity Tom Delaney, who knows the local waters "like the back of his hand" Tom, 63, has lost count of...
MELBOURNE: The Port Phillip Sea Pilots will mark their 150 years anniversary in June and July 1989. Licensed pilots have been available at Port Phillip Heads since 1839, when merchants petitioned Governor George Gibb of New...
Harbor pilot, Captain Paul RInge: “You get to do the best part – berthing and unberthing.- Picture: Greg Scullin Piloting the polish tall ship Dar Mlodziezy into Princes Pier last week was, according to Captain Paul...
At least 80 percent of Port Phillip sea pilots who retired between 1975 and 1981 were forced to quit because of ill health. And almost half of those pilots died within a year of retirement as...