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Hi Colin.

The light you have appears to be the same as the one that I recently acquired and requested assistance to identify on this forum a few weeks ago. Unable to post pictures easily I gave a verbal description and the replies indicated that it was a Beach Defence Light.

Funny how these things happen. The weekend before last I was in Mildura and went down to look at the paddle wheelers that had gathered for the hundredth anniversary of the launching of the PS Melbourne. One of the paddle wheelers had two of these lights mounted on it. One on each front corner of the super structure. They were both polished up and looked like they really belonged there.

I have a friend in Mildura who is in the process of building his own side wheeler and I asked him how he was set for external lighting and he said he had nothing so I told him 'you do now'. He was well aware of the lights I had noticed and named the vessel they were on which was the Settler.

If anybody has one of these lights they wish to sell I would be most interested as I would like to present him with a pair if I could. I would buy a couple if I could get them as the one I have is somewhat knocked around.

David