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Stern view of the 175-ton wooden “MV Santa Cruz” pictured nearing completion with shipyard workers on the slipway at Wright’s Shipyard on the Tuncurry foreshore c. 1950
This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced for other purposes without the prior permissions of Great Lakes Museum. Original images held at Great Lakes Museum An original black and white photograph of a stern view of the 175-ton wooden “MV Santa Cruz” pictured nearing completion with shipyard workers on the slipway at Wright’s Shipyard on the Tuncurry foreshore circa 1950.

Name: MV Santa Cruz
Owner: F.E. Crouch
Builder: Ernest Wright & Son, Wright Sawmill and Shipyard, Tuncurry N.S.W.

Nationality: Australian
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Date built: 1954
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Weight: 175 gross tonnage
Length: 126ft
Beam: 22ft
Depth: 9ft
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Career
Believed to have spent three years around the Solomon Islands until purchased by North Coast Whaling Pty Ltd. for use as a whale chaser.

Name: Norfolk Whaler
Owner: North Coast Whaling Pty Ltd, 14 November 1958

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Owner: S.G. White Pty Ltd, 15 January 1964

Name: MV Arcturus
Owner: believed to have been transferred to the Papua New Guinea government to be used as a training vessel. 13 December 1965

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Contact Great Lakes Museum as copyright restrictions may apply. Handwritten in black ink on reverse: ‘Santa Cruz 1946’ PN003517


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An original black and white photograph of a stern view of the 175-ton wooden “MV Santa Cruz” pictured nearing completion with shipyard workers on the slipway at Wright’s Shipyard on the Tuncurry foreshore circa 1950.

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