FUNDING  BOOST HELPS PROTECT HMVS CERBERUS

Heritage Minister Peter Garrett  announced on 25 July that the  National Trust of Victoria would use $500,000 in Federal funding as a  first step towards stabilising the HMVS Cerberus shipwreck.

The Minister announced the funding during  a visit to the wreck, which sits as a breakwater a few hundred metres off  the beach at Melbourne’s Half Moon Bay, Black Rock.

"Purpose-built in  1868 for the Victorian Colonial Navy, the HMVS Cerberus is a unique part of our naval  heritage. It was included in the National Heritage List in December 2005,"  Mr Garrett said.