The Ray Kemp designed MV Shipright was used as a final test in the MMAPSS Project to trial the Photogrammetry documentation, particularly highlighting the required vessel measurements of vessels we had written for use in the project. This identified a number of edits that needed to be made so the draft documentation could be used…
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Enemy Submarine in Tasmanian waters WW11 leads to MMT’s Model U Boat! – Photogrammetry subject.
Enemy Submarine in Tasmanian waters WW11 After mines were set in Bass Strait in 1944 routing of all shipping, except local traffic, south of Tasmania and ordering ships in southern Australian waters to zigzag and darken ship at night. This was introduced as a U Boat was reported in southern ocean waters. U-Boat Commander Timm…
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Can we craft Tassie Too and Terra Linna 1/2 models as a result of Photogrammetry.
Tassie Too models for fund raising purposes. Tassie Too HV 000234 was an early Photogrammetry project that proved very successful. We were later asked if we could produce a 3D model from the Photogrammetry process that would enable the Tassie Too team to sell ½ models as a fund raiser. With some fine tuning this…
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Eighteen Twenty a historic Victorian 21 footer restricted class racing skiff
Eighteen Twenty a historic Victorian 21 footer restricted class racing skiff. [caption id="attachment_24771" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Eighteen Twenty being readied for restoration, Photo Peter Lethbridge.[/caption] Length on the deck 7620 Length on the waterline 7530 Beam 2415 at 4390 from the stem No mast step or deck fixtures (at the time of photogrammetry) The centre board…
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MMAPSS Photogrammetry Project – Mayfair
Mayfair (1930) - REVISED Type: Motor launch Built: Strahan, Tasmania, 1930 by Harry Grining. 1487 Tonnage: 4.5 Dimensions: 32.8 oa x 8.6 x 3.0 feet Engines: 25-35-h.p. Invincible = 9-10 knots; (by 1970) Lister diesel, 27-b.h.p. Owners: Harry Grining; late 1940s Morrison Brothers. Harry Grining built Mayfair for his own use as a tender in…
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MMAPSS Photogrammetry Project – Iola
Iola ex Aeola ex Iola ex ? (c1930s) Type: Auxiliary gaff-rigged sloop yacht, ex fishing vessel Built: Tamar River, Tasmania, c1930s by David Hudson Dimensions: 16 feet Owners: Hudson; c1940 Geoff Tyson; 1940s Cyril Cameron; later Gordon Tyson; 1979 Gerry Wittingham; late 1980s James Cornwall; … ; 2021 Cameron family. This little Huon pine cod…
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Tamima
Tamima was designed by W D Bailey of Como NSW in 1929, a 30 ft canoe-sterned enlargement of the 27 ft transom-sterned Albatross he designed in 1927. The name Tamima means Albatross in Bruny Island native tongue. Her lines were published in Australian Motor Boat and Yachting during 1929. Tamima was built as a cruiser…
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Nancy
Nancy is a wooden Derwent River ferry built in 1917 by AA 'Tucker' Abel, a well known boat builder in Hobart, Tasmania who specialised in motor launches. Nancy operated as a ferry on the Huon and later the Derwent River for almost 40 years until at least the 1950s, forming a long and close association…
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