Diving the NORWHALE 115m

NORWHALE S lighter ex tsmv 365 g, 306 n, ON140216, 184.7 x 30.1 x 7.1, B.1943 Redpath, Brown & Co. Glasgow, 2 x diesel Davey Paxman & Co. (believed to have been built as an L.C.T. for British Army). Reg.1950 by the Nor-West Whaling Co., reg.Fremantle and employed conveying water and stores to the whaling station. July 1966 sold to J & M Franetovich and while supplying oil to a vessel in Fremantle Feb. 1968 sank, and raised with difficulty Apl. 6 and taken over by Fremantle Port authority who sold to Goldfields Metal Traders who scuttled her off Rottnest Island June 20, 1968.