Spent a large part of the day at the Cheynes Beach Whaling Station.
The Cheynes Beach Whaling Company was the last whaling company to cease operations in Australia, closing in 1978.
Opening in 1980 (known then as Whale World), it is now home to an interactive museum on whales and whaling.
The steam powered whaler Cheynes IV was built in 1948 by Framnaes Mek Vaerksted A/S (Shipyard), Sandefjord, Norway, Yard No 140. She was built for the Union Whaling Co. Ltd, Durban South Africa and paid off in 1967.
In 1969, she was purchased by Cheynes Beach Whaling Company Pty Ltd. Albany in Western Australia to replace the worn out Gascoyne, a German built veteran launched in 1936 and operated by the company since 1966.
She was sailed to Fremantle from South Africa by a crew of the Cheynes Beach Whaling Company employees, a trip which took seventeen days and arrived in Fremantle in March 1970. She was re-named Cheynes IV and after passing all State Maritime requirements, hunted whales for the Cheynes Beach Whaling Company from March 14th 1970 until its closure on November 21st 1978.
