Ca. 1920s: lighthouse tender RIP, ex-gunboat PALUMA, on Port Phillip Bay - A.C. Green, SLV.
6314. As modernized around 1916, the 1884-built former 'flat-iron gunboat PALUMA
has built up bows, a new bridge, a new funnel and derricks for her role as the Victorian Ports and Harbours Department's lighthouse tender s.S. RIP [not to be confused with the department's second post-WWII RIP, the former corvette HMAS WHYALLA].
We find we had another good viuew of the first SS RIP at Pic. NO. 1470, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4483862654/
This photo: Allan C. Green [1878-1954], Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library] Accession No. H91.325/1725, out of copyright, publicly released.
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