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Cruising

Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 16, 2015
Melbourne’s cruise ship season starts on 27 October when the Noordam berths at Station Pier. Over almost the next eight months there will be 83 other liner visits the pier. As the Noordam is a regular visitor, you will not expect the chief of its owner, Holland America Line, to send a message to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull thanking Australians for…

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Station Pier Welcomes Liners

Port Melbourne HistorySeptember 25, 2014
Crowds welcome the Empress of Britain Imagine an MCG Grand Final crowd thronging around Station Pier. That is what occurred 6 April 1938 when one of the Golden Age of ocean liners, the Empress of Britain, berthed there. This crowd estimate was published in The Argus the following day. At 42,500 tons (43,181 tonnes), it was the biggest vessel ever to…

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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.