Building 137 seven samurai The sole surviving Cape Class

The sole surviving Cape Class vessel

What remains today retains the physical evidence of a production process largely unchanged since the early twentieth century

dust catching in shafts of light above the worn surface

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Valves at Bathurst

Building 137 seven samurai The sole surviving Cape ClassBuilding 137 at Newington Armament Depot and Nature Reserve stands with its windows open to the weather, the Federation face brick slowly surrendering to decades without maintenance. The Royal Australian Navy operated this site from 1921 until 1999, storing and distributing armaments across a 100 hectare precinct laced with narrow gauge railway. Part of the Newington Armory series.