Commonwealth Lightship 8
CLS 8 Breaksea

- active lightship from 1983 until 1999 -

 

 

 Position as "Carpentaria": 10° 49' South - 140° 59' East
Position as "Breaksea Spit": 24° 21' South - 153° 11' East


Ship data

Length: 24 m

Beam: 8 m

Draft:
Weight: 140 t

Builder: Ocean Shipyards, Fremantale, Western Australia

Year of construction: 1983
Costs: 1.2 million Dollar

Material: steel

 
Range: 19 km
Optic: 3rd order

Illuminat: acetylene

 

History:

1983 commissioned

1983-1999 Gulf of Carpentaria, Breaksea Spit, Bass Strait Oil fields

1999 decommissioned

September 23rd, 2000 "environmentally cleaned" and together with CLS 7 scuttled as part of the Cochrane Artifical Reef off Elliot Heads near Bundaberg.

Breaksea Split is now marked with a North Cardinal Bouy, Carpentaria Shoal with a Isolated Danger Bouy

 

 

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