This historic film from our NBN News Archives, reminds us of the
Scale of Manufacturing that took place on Newcastle Harbour..
The State Dockyard on Dyke Point built large world class ships..
Minister: This Dockyard has played a very distinguished part in the history of sea transport in Australia…
Over 70 ships were built here by local tradesmen…. Ranging from tugs like the shell cove and ferries including The Lady Woodward,
To twenty thousand tonne tankers.. and Transport vessels like the Australian Trader…
Filmed by NBN News, these ship launch events.. show what we once made locally, now an echo of history, a memory kept alive by these powerful archive images..
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