HMAS Cerberus
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HMAS
Cerberus was built for service in the colonies and arrived
Australia in 1871. The monitor did service as a guard boat
during world war one, and in April 1924 the ship was sold
for scrapping to Melbourne Salvage Company. She was later
placed 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 4 meter. She is
one of very few remaining monitors left in the world,
together with the American USS Monitor ,Thor in Norway, the Russian Rusalka and the Hungarian SMS Leitha
monitor museum in Budapest. There has been plans to raise
the wreck Cerberus, but as of 2018 the wreck still laid
there at Black Rock outside Melbourne.
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Picture: HMAS Cerberus Courtesy of "Navy" Australia  "In 1866, the Victorian
government ordered a ship to supplement the shore-based
fortifications of Port Philip Bay, and to defend
the colony in the event of a Russian attack.
Cerberus was ordered on the understanding that if
she operated in any role other than the defence of
Victoria, she would revert
to Admiralty control.The monitor was
constructed by Palmers Shipbuilding at
their Jarrow-on-Tyne shipyard. She was laid
down on 1 August 1867, launched on 2 December 1868, and
completed in August 1870. Cerberus cost £117,556 to
build, with the British Admiralty meeting 80%
of the cost"
Last updated: August 2019
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