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2 months 1 week ago #252522
by Lang
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2 months 1 week ago #252556
by JOHN.K.
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Also mention that the Australian Army built a ship to collect US construction equipment from the islands after WW2 ,and Thiess Bros did similar collecting abandoned US earthmoving machines after WW2..........and probably lots of others who had access to suitable boats...........Ive forgotten the name of the army ship,but it was later used as a coral barge by QCL.
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2 months 1 week ago - 2 months 1 week ago #252557
by Lang
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It was Army heavy lift ship "Crusader". It did several trips to Morotai and Borneo in 1945/46 recovering Australian equipment (not US stuff) including the Cat12 graders of the RAAF Airfield Construction Squadrons.
It had a flat bottom so it could sit on the sand at places that had no dock facility.
It later becam the coral carrier "Cementco" operating with dredges in Moreton Bay.
I stripped it of all its non-ferrous metal the week before it was towed out to become a diving site at Moreton Island,
Still have one of the 6 props and the Ruwalt engine side plates.
Photo of it in service and now at the end of the row at the Moreton Wrecks.
It had a flat bottom so it could sit on the sand at places that had no dock facility.
It later becam the coral carrier "Cementco" operating with dredges in Moreton Bay.
I stripped it of all its non-ferrous metal the week before it was towed out to become a diving site at Moreton Island,
Still have one of the 6 props and the Ruwalt engine side plates.
Photo of it in service and now at the end of the row at the Moreton Wrecks.
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2 months 6 days ago #252566
by asw120
“I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them”
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I would have played on that in my early teens, not too long after they got there. One of those had a row of several levers that still moved.
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2 months 6 days ago #252571
by Normanby
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How easy to drift off topic. Anyhow I recall working on the "Cementco", the dredge and the barges during my apprenticeship at Evans Deakin starting in 1960. I think all that fleet undertook yearly maintenance in Cairncross dry dock. Not sure how many times I worked on the "Cementco" or when coral dredging stopped in Moreton Bay.
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2 months 5 days ago #252573
by Mrsmackpaul
Your better to die trying than live on your knees begging
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A dumb question, what was the coral used for ?
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2 months 5 days ago #252575
by V8Ian
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An ingredient of the cement made at Darra, Paul. A partial substitute for lime, I believe.
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2 months 5 days ago #252576
by Lang
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2 months 5 days ago #252577
by cobbadog
Cheers Cobba & Cobbarette
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Why did they stop, there us a whole reef full of coral up that way
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2 months 5 days ago #252579
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