Lyttelton II

While taking construction photos at Victoria Dock about a month ago, I spotted this old steam tug looking a bit on the rusty and decrepit side. A bit of research tells me she was built in 1938-9 in Scotland, served as a tug in Lyttelton NZ for 40 years, operated as a tourist vessel in Sydney and then went to Geelong in 1987 before moving to Melbourne.

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There's something rather surreal about sights like this just outside of the Melbourne CBD and surrounded by all the shiny newness going up in Docklands...