20Feb 2019.
I was recently standing atop the cliff in front of the ruins of the Cape St George Lighthouse and was lucky enough to get a photograph of the 19th Century square rigger James Craig passing by on her voyage from Hobart to Sydney. This sort of scene would have been common to the original lighthouse keepers manning the lighthouse from 1860 until it's decommissioning in 1899. Besides maintaining the lighthouse the keepers had the responsibility of monitoring all passing ships. Communication between the ships and the lighthouse before wireless was via flags of different designs and colours hoisted high on the ships rigging and displayed on the flagstaff which stood in clear view beside the lighthouse near the cliff edge. When the telegraph was connected they reported all ship movements to Greenwell Point Pilot Station, from there the information was passed on to Sydney. Many of the ship movements were posted in the Sydney newspapers.
Continue reading about Cape St George.
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