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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Tall Ships Festival: 6 to 15 September

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The Tall Ships Festival starts today with ships coming through the Heads and arriving in Williamstown tomorrow.

The Tall Ships came to Port Melbourne in 1988 for the Bicentenary Celebrations which were launched nationwide on New Year’s Eve at Princes Pier by Prime Minister Bob Hawke. A quarter of a million people visited the Tall Ships over the week they were in Port.

The visit of the Tall Ships is an opportunity to revisit that exciting week in Port, and to get a sense of the foreshore before Beacon Cove.

view  from the Mission to Seamen towards Station Pier, Alison Kelly Collection

Mission to Seamen, demolished 1995. Alison Kelly Collection

Crowds flow over Centenary Bridge, Alison Kelly Collection

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.