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USCGC Cape Shoalwater was a 95-foot (29 m) type "C" Cape-class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1958 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat.
The Cape class was originally developed as an ASW boat and as a replacement for the aging, World War II vintage, wooden 83-foot patrol boats (83 feet (25 m) in length) that were used mostly for search and rescue duties. [2]
HMAS Shoalwater (M 81), named for Shoalwater Bay in Queensland, was a Bay class minehunter of the Royal Australian Navy. She was built by Carrington Slipways at its Ramsay Fibreglass facility in Tomago, New South Wales , launched on 20 June 1987 and commissioned on 10 October 1987.
Shoalwater was fitted with two geared engines, of which historian Corning said "generated more noise than power". [3] Shoalwater , as her name indicated, was designed to run when all other boats were compelled to lay up for lack of water on the sand and gravel bars that often blocked river navigation.
The Shoalwater Islands Marine Park is a protected marine park located in Western Australia and stretches from the northern point of the Garden Island Causeway to the southern point of Becher Point. The 6,540-hectare (16,200-acre) marine park is located offshore from the suburban locality of Shoalwater .
Penguin Island is a 12.5-hectare (31-acre) island off the coast near Perth, approximately 660 metres (722 yd) from Shoalwater. It was found to be home to a colony of 120 little penguins in 2024. [1] Since 2007, the island has experienced a 92 percent decline in penguin numbers, from a peak of 1,600 that year. [2]
SS Edward L. Ryerson is a steel-hulled American Great Lakes freighter that entered service in 1960. Built between April 1959 and January 1960 for the Inland Steel Company, she was the third of the thirteen so-called 730-class of lake freighters, each of which shared the unofficial title of "Queen of the Lakes", as a result of their record-breaking length.
Jack Holt, OBE (8 April 1912 – 14 November 1995) was a prolific designer of sailing dinghies.His pioneering designs of dinghies using plywood did much to popularise the sport of sailing in the period immediately following World War II.