HMAS Cerberus
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Cerberus was a monitor built for service in the colonies
and arrived in Australia in 1871. She did service as a
guard boat during world war one, and in April 1924 the
outdated monitor was sold for scrapping to Melbourne
Salvage Company. She was laid up in Half Moon Bay as a
breakwater in September 1926, and has since then laid
there with the deck barely under water and the hull
resting on a depth of approximately four meters. She is
one of very few remaining monitors left in the world,
together with the remains of the American USS Monitor, Thor in Norway, the Russian Rusalka and the SMS Leitha monitor museum in
Budapest just to mention a few. There has been plans to
raise the wreck of Cerberus, but as of 2019 the wreck
still laid there in Half Moon Bay
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| 37°58'02.9"S 145°00'28.2"E Last updated: December
2020
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