Engine Order Telegraph Size:XL The amenities building that housed

The amenities building that housed it was a separate structure on the same site

the complex operated for 96 years before closing in May 1999

A steel slab taken mid-cut

when CSR Construction Materials ended nearly a century of dolerite extraction on the site

housing dressing rooms

Engine Order Telegraph Size:XL The amenities building that housedThe internal circuits of the engine order telegraph aboard MV Cape Don, the instrument that transmitted speed commands from the bridge to the engineers below. Signal flag pigeon holes sit to its left. Built at State Dockyard, Newcastle, and completed in January 1963, Cape Don served the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service for 27 years before retiring in 1990. Part of the MV Cape Don series.