Big cargo ship building at Whyalla Shipyards (1972) | Retrofocus | ABC Australia

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This is what Australia’s ship-building industry looked like in the early 1970s.
The ‘Clutha Capricorn’ was built in 1972 at the Whyalla Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, located on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.
It weighed 83,000 tonnes and was one of the largest ship’s ever built in Australia.
The Clutha Capricorn had a contract with Queensland Alumina to carry 3-million tonnes of bauxite a year from Weipa to Gladstone on the Queensland coast.
The bauxite was then made into aluminium.
The ship is said to have been scrapped in China in 1984.
The Whyalla Shipbuilding and Engineering Works closed in 1978, after 66 ships were built at the yards.
Video produced by Shannon Corvo of ABC North and West.
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[@briananderson7285]

When we made more than holes. Before the government sold sold out manufacturing industry in AUSTRALIA. 1975 LIMA AGREEMENT.

[@davidwatson8118]

Sad to see that industry lost.

[@fandangofandango2022]

We don't Build ships here any more as a matter of fact what do we build / We have given away so much that we had Ships built here were 1St Class and World Class.

[@peterlaustra2892]

IT'S to review or decouple from the Lima agreement..