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All aboard: Lyn Beaumont, Rebecca Hamersley, Max Bryant, Gillian Swaby, shire mayor Cr Lynn Bowden, Wyuna model-maker Brian Wastell and partner Rosey Kendall, and Bill Barber with a model of the ship at Western Port Oberon Association’s information centre in Crib Point on Friday night. Picture: Yanni
Shipshape sub centre By Graham White THE proposed Victorian Maritime Centre in Hastings has officially taken possession of its second vessel with historic MV Wyuna joining the submarine HMAS Otama as marquee attractions. Western Australian businesswoman and mining investor Gillian Swaby handed over Wyuna before an audience of 80 volunteers and supporters at the museum’s headquarters in Crib Point on Friday night. Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor Cr Lynn Bowden described the gift as “more than the gift of a ship; it is an
economic boost to a deserving community”. Cr Bowden predicted the twin attractions, backed by onshore displays, would make Hastings a tourism destination in its own right, drawing thousands into a “delightful seaside community that too many now bypass”. Wyuna is being overhauled in Launceston before the voyage to Hastings where she will be temporarily moored until the new museum is built adjacent to Western Port Marina. Project spokesman Max Bryant said the ship would provide the maritime centre with more than just another historic attraction: she is capable of sleep-
ing 70 and would be ideal for live-in education programs. The 1800-tonne Wyuna has an indelible place in Victorian maritime history. Originally envisaged as a sister ship to Royal Yacht Britannia, she was reconfigured as a seagoing pilot ship at the behest of the Victorian government. For almost two decades after her completion in 1952 she met new arrivals off Port Phillip Heads and sent pilots aboard to guide them into the Port of Melbourne. When it was decided a small vessel might do the job cheaper, Wyuna became a training vessel for a generation of Australian merchant seamen.
Later she was bought by mining magnate (and now would-be politician) Clive Palmer to be used as a floating hotel for one of his Queensland projects. This did not go ahead and Wyuna was acquired by another mining company with which Ms Swaby has an association. When the maritime centre project team learned of the ship’s history and her long links with Victoria, they approached Ms Swaby to see if they might acquire the vessel. Impressed by the project and by the volunteer support that has brought it to this point, Ms Swaby agreed not only
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