The Northern Territory government says it will 'dispose of' a historic Huon pine warship used by the elite Z Special Group in World War Two. A group of enthusiasts is hoping to save the rotting vessel, but time is running out.
A historic Hobart-built warship is set to be "disposed of" by the Northern Territory government because it is in the way on a construction.
The 80 foot Huon pine patrol boat HDML 1321 later known as Rushcutter has been sitting on a cradle in a commercial shipyard since 2018.A letter from the NT government's Infrastructure and Planning Logistics Department, seen by the ABC, said the continued presence of the vessel was a "significant hindrance" to the ongoing construction project.
Robert Welfare, from Save Motor Launch 1321, said the group had not been granted access to the land the boat sits on because it is owned by a private company. It was built in Hobart by Purdon and Featherstone in 1943 and was the first of nine patrol boats built in Australia for the Navy in WWII.Its most notorious operation was in 1945, when eight commandos used the vessel to go behind enemy lines in Papua New Guinea as part of Operation Copper.
In 2018, it was finally pulled out of Darwin Harbour after a mammoth effort, and has since been sitting in a purpose-built cradle on the site of the $400 million ship lift development.
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