QMM to be builtQMMNewspaper article re QMM build about to start.Reverse - NILcommunity information, qmm to be built

Transported to Victoria as deck cargo aboard s.s. Port Darwin. This vessel was ordered by Government of Victoria and was only used in training exercises in Port Philip and had become outmoded by the time the Royal Australian Navy was formed in 1911.Buried by sand in the grounds of the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum. There is no known record of how the "Lonsdale" ended abandoned on the beach at Queenscliff. Originally the land where the QMM is situated was the foreshore at the back of the houses in Beach Street, Queenscliff. There were two Torpedo boats built in 1884, the Lonsdale and the Nepean.Site of the buried remains of the Torpedo Boat HMAS Lonsdale [HMVS]hmas lonsdale, hmvs lonsdale, victorian navy, port phillip, royal australian navy

BoQ Inspectors outside shed in Princess ParkHistorical photos of early days of QMM build, c1981Colour photos of early QMM construction, c1981Reverse " inspection holes for foundations / Mr Col Cairns & Mr Henry Hudson / Outside Queenscliffe 22 Dec 1981 / Gil Allbutt photographer ".historical references