Queensland Maritime Museum: South Bank
The Queensland Maritime Museum, at the down river end of
South Bank,
packs a lot of Australian history into a small site. One of its many exhibits of Queensland maritime history is this coal-burning tug, the appropriately named Forceful.
An interesting exhibit from Queensland's maritime history is the Torres Strait pearling lugger, Penguin. She is finished in the colours of Duaun Island, where she spent much of her last working days.
Less glamorous perhaps than some of the exhibits but vitally necessary to safe navigation is the lightship. This vessel is the Carpentaria lightship from Queensland's northern waters.
Pride of place for the Museum's exhibits goes to HMAS Diamantina, a World War 2 frigate of the Royal Australian Navy, complete with examples of guns and torpedo (on the dockside beside the forward gangway).
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