Image cropped from a 2019 panorama provide by Curtin University's panoramas project, showing the smallest slipway to the right.
Jack Kent describes it in the 1991 report:
101 TONNE SLIPWAY
HISTORY
This slipway was constructed at the same time as the 610 tonne slipway, both being completed and in service in 1958-59.
ASSESSMENT OF CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
The full history of slipways has not been adequately researched and therefore its significance can not be fully determined. However, by remaining as an active working operation on the wharf it contributes to the significance of boat building/ship repair part of traditional operations of the port thus to the overall significance of Victoria Quay.
Hutchison, David, Jack Kent, Agnieshka Kiera, Russell Kingdom, Larraine Stevens, Tanya Suba, 1991, Victoria Quay and its Architecture its History and Assessment of Cultural Significance, City of Fremantle; Part II: Jack Kent: 'Architectural evaluation of existing buldings and assessment of their cultural significance', 54 pp. This is page 37.
Sherriff, Jacqui 2001, 'Fremantle South Slipway: a vital World War II defence facility', Fremantle Studies, 2: 106-119.
Slipways Development Concept, 2005.
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