Museum
Queensland Maritime Museum
Nineteenth-century stone dry dock housing a preserved WWII frigate and wartime repair history.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Queensland Maritime Museum in South Brisbane centers on the nineteenth-century dry dock that now holds the frigate Diamantina, and on a wounded American submarine that limped into it during the Second World War. You'll hear about USS Growler's commander, Howard Gilmore, the ramming that cost him his life, and what the dock's engineers and fitters then had to do with a broken hull. Stand at its granite edge to get a sense of just how much steel this dock was built to hold.
This audio guide was created using AI.