HRH Princess Anne visits the Cape Don working museum and training ship

Pictured – the Cape Don on a slipway during its operational days. Photo supplied by the Sea Heritage Foundation

The Princess Royal, Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne visited the Cape Don museum and training ship last weekend on Sunday 10 April 2022. The Princess Royal was on a tour of Australia and Papua New Guinea. On her visit to the Cape Don, she was representing Prince of Wales, Prince Charles.

The Cape Don, a 1963 Newcastle State Dockyards-built lighthouse supply and navigation aids...

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Gala black tie fundraiser announced for Cape Don and indigenous maritime training

Pictured: the Cape Don at Port Jackson in the 1970s. Photograph supplied by the Sea Heritage Foundation.

A Gala Black Tie Fundraiser will be held at the National Maritime Museum on Saturday the 20th of November 2021 to raise for funds for the heritage vessel Cape Don and for indigenous maritime training programmes.

The event will be held in the appropriately named “Lighthouse Gallery” to assist in raising funds to dry dock the ship at the Garden Island Naval Dockyard in the new year for some...

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