Category:Sea Lion (ship, 1958)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Bouy tender, later fishing ship, later private boat
• Built by: McFarlane & Sons, Port Adelaide
• Yard No:
• Keel laid:
• Launched: 1946
• Completed: 1958
• Length over all: 25.91 m
• Beam: 6.22 m
• GT:
• DWT:
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History[edit]

• 1946 Named MSL 708; Flag: Australia
  • Intended as lighter for Royal Australian Navy; laid up incomplete
• 1958 Named Captain W.F. Baddams; Flag: Australia
  • Completed as lighthouse and bouy tender; steel superstructure on wooden hull
  • Owner: South Australian Department of Marine & Harbours
• 1981 Sold to Sea Lion Industries Pty. Ltd., Hobart
• 1983 Renamed Sea Lion; Flag: Australia
  • Converted to squid fishing ship
• 1990 Flag: New Zealand
  • Port: Wellington
• 2022.08.08 Sank at wharf in Wellington
• 2022.11 Partially raised and scrapped