No. 10 Lighter, Kingston

© Robin Nisbet

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1:1 Ratio - Square, Australia, Black and White, Norfolk Island

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Black and White, Boats, Kingston, Norfolk Island, Robin Nisbet

ABOUT 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.

These boats are built by hand on Norfolk Island, and after years of ocean-going service they are given a sedate retirement and a place to rest among the buildings of Kingston’s Old Town. There the boats gracefully weather away and present an elegant and peaceful reminder of their place in Norfolk’s story.

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