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Queenscliff Lifeboat Service
Queenscliff Lifeboat Service
Photographs supplied by Kent Watson

The cairn commemorates the Queenscliff Lifeboat Service and is dedicated to the crews who manned the lifeboats during dangerous sea rescues. 

Location

Address:Gellibrand & Symonds Streets, Foreshore Reserve, Queenscliff, 3225
State:VIC
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -38.266434
Long: 144.664481
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Monument
Monument Theme:Disaster
Sub-Theme:Maritime

Dedication

Front Inscription

Queenscliff Lifeboat Service

1856 - 1976

This memorial cairn is dedicated to the crews of the Queenscliff Lifeboats -

The fishermen, lighthouse personnel and other men who risked their lives by manning the lifeboats which operated in these  dangerous waters during rescues from wrecked, stranded or other vessels in peril.

Erected by Queenscliff Maritime Museum

Source: MA
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