CLS4 Carpentaria
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Commonwealth Lightship 4 (CLS4) Carpentaria is a lightship that was in service from 1917 to 1985 with the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service,[note 1] built at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard and commissioned in 1917. The vessel is named after the Gulf of Carpentaria, where it spent most of its service life together with its sister ship CLS2 (also named Carpentaria).[3][4][5]
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Lightship CLS4 "Carpentaria" moored at Wharf 7, Darling Harbour. | |
History | |
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Australia | |
Name | Carpentaria |
Namesake | Gulf of Carpentaria |
Owner | Australian National Maritime Museum |
Builder | Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, Australia |
Laid down | 1916 |
Completed | 1917 |
Commissioned | 1917[1] |
Decommissioned | 1985 |
Homeport | Sydney |
Fate | Preserved |
Status | Museum ship as of late 2016 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Lightvessel |
Displacement | 164 t (161.4 long tons; 180.8 short tons)[2] |
Length | 21.94 m (72.0 ft) |
Beam | 7.82 m (25.7 ft) |
Draft | 2.74 m (9.0 ft)[3] |
Propulsion | none |
Complement | none |
Notes | Career and characteristics data from “ANMM” website,[4] unless noted otherwise. |
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