Deja vu as Flinders Island ships return to service

The small ro-ro Matthew Flinders III has resumed mainland Tasmania-Flinders Island trade after builder and former owner Matthew Bayles bought the vessel and near-sister Southern Condor II from the receivers of Southern Shipping.

  

Matthew Flinders III at the port of Melbourne (Photo: Dale E Crisp)

Mr Bayles built the ships in 1995 and 2002 respectively at his own yard at Bridport in north-eastern Tasmania and operated both to the Funeaux Group of islands from Bridport, as well as in general Bass Strait trade, under the...

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