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Lighter No. 01, Kingston
© Robin Nisbet
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3:2 Ratio - Landscape, Australia, Black and White, Norfolk IslandABOUT THIS IMAGE
A Lighter Boat is a cargo carrying boat used to unload a ship and quite simply, make it ‘lighter’. Norfolk’s design of cargo ferrying vessel has been used as a means of transporting goods from ship to shore for decades, and in the era we are in now where everything is scrutinised, digitised and compartmentalised, it’s a testament to Norfolk’s boat-building and seafaring skills that this remains the most economically efficient way to unload cargo, and bring it to Norfolk’s shores. The Lighter boat shown here is photographed in a boatshed in the World Heritage listed Kingston area.
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