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1/350 HMVS Cerberus (1870) Breastwork
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HMAS Cerberus, originally commissioned as HMVS Cerberus (V standing for Victorian Navy, one of the larger colonies on Autralian soil), was a breastwork monitor designed by Sir Edward Reed, DNC (Director of Naval Construction) of the Royal Navy and one of the most prolific ship designers of the period. Launched in 1868 and completed in 1870, the ship drew lessons from American Civil War era monitors in that her freeboard was higher, but not satisfied with that, Reed added a breastwork amidships on which the turrets and hatches for the engines and crew were located, standing 10.5 ft (3 mt) high from the waterline. This decision was taken in light of the fact she would have to sail all the way from Britain to Australia under her own power, and therefore had to be seaworthy enough to make the trip. Just as extra precaution, the sides were temporarily extended in height until Cerberus got to her home port of Port Philip.
Designated as flagship of the Victorian Navy, the public was initially not impressed, but she proved a solid design, although given the extremely rapid pace of naval development in the late XIX century her low freeboard design and four 400 pdr 10 in muzzle-loading guns were obsoleted pretty quickly.
Nonetheless, she provided useful service until 1909, being redesignated HMAS Cerberus in 1911, with the foundation of the Royal Australian Navy. At that time the monitor was getting pretty old, and her engines could not generate enough power to propel her on their own. Therefore she became a store and munitions ship during the Great War, and was renamed Platypus II in 1921 and becoming a submarine tender; her original name was taken up by the gunboat HMAS Protector.
In 1924 the old Cerberus was sold to be scrapped, however after removing the upper works and what could be taken out of the hull, she was scuttled two years later off Half Moon Bay to act as a breakwater, where she can still be seen today, and where sometimes divers and swimmers can pay a visit to the old ship, which sits on the bottom, her deck awash but her guns and turrets still in place and in broad daylight. However it has been noted recently that, even she has proved exceptionally strongly built, she is now decaying and unsafe.
Designated as flagship of the Victorian Navy, the public was initially not impressed, but she proved a solid design, although given the extremely rapid pace of naval development in the late XIX century her low freeboard design and four 400 pdr 10 in muzzle-loading guns were obsoleted pretty quickly.
Nonetheless, she provided useful service until 1909, being redesignated HMAS Cerberus in 1911, with the foundation of the Royal Australian Navy. At that time the monitor was getting pretty old, and her engines could not generate enough power to propel her on their own. Therefore she became a store and munitions ship during the Great War, and was renamed Platypus II in 1921 and becoming a submarine tender; her original name was taken up by the gunboat HMAS Protector.
In 1924 the old Cerberus was sold to be scrapped, however after removing the upper works and what could be taken out of the hull, she was scuttled two years later off Half Moon Bay to act as a breakwater, where she can still be seen today, and where sometimes divers and swimmers can pay a visit to the old ship, which sits on the bottom, her deck awash but her guns and turrets still in place and in broad daylight. However it has been noted recently that, even she has proved exceptionally strongly built, she is now decaying and unsafe.
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