Assist in keeping the interior of the MV Cape Don (a historic museum ship) clean

Join the crew of the MV Cape Don. An historic lighthouse tender thats now enjoying a second life as a museum and training ship.

Assist the restoration of the MV Cape Don by using your welding skills to both repair or rebuild parts of the ship.

Help restore the historic MV Cape Dons machinery. Work on various diesel engines, pumps, compressors, fridge plant and engine room plant.

You'll be working with our team restoring the historic lighthouse tender MV Cape Dons electrical systems Including 240vAC, 220VDC and 32VDC The impact will include improving interior and exterior lighting. Showing of the vessel in a better light. And help bring machinery to life

Use pneumatic and electric tools to remove rust and scale off metal surfaces and then apply paint correctly. You'll be both improving the appearance of the vessel but also stopping any deterioration.

Working under our senior radio room volunteer you'll be restoring historic radio equipment back to life to show the public how communication at sea developed.

Assist in the restoration of the historic MV Cape Dons timber fittings. You'll contribute to getting the interiors back to museum quality standard

Deck Crew cleaning. Assist in keeping the exterior of the historic museum ship MV Cape Don as well as cargo hold and stores clean and presentable for tours and visitors.

Spread Joy, by joining our Volunteer Team! The HammondCare Volunteer program is a great way for you to make a meaningful difference to the life of an older person, right here in North Sydney. Spend time with an elderly lady living in a residential aged care home in Lane Cove. She enjoys Music, arts and crafts, gardening and getting out for a coffee.

You'll assist the society by engaging people on tours. Giving the history of the ship.

Assist the chef in providing meals to the volunteers. Cleaning up afterwards And keeping the galley and dinning room clean

you'll be working alongside the engine room crew preparing and repainting various surfaces in the engine room and other machinery spaces

Engine room presentation crew We are preparing to bring the engine room back to life. As part of that we need to get the engine room as clean as possible. We are looking for volunteers to help clean and polish (potentially repainting as well) It'll improve the experience for visitors to the ship as well

The main jobs will be returning to full operation 3 Mirrless generators as well as maintaining several Petter back up engines (fire pump, air compressor and generator as well as a second back up generator. ) You'll be allowing to further educate the public on how a ship operated as well as inspire people intrested in a career in mechanical repair.