The vessel commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as HMAS Falie during World War II, serving first as an inspection vessel primarily patrolling the Port of Sydney, Australia, then as a stores ship.
Among the last surviving ketches are the 1883 Nelcebee (owned by the South Australian Maritime Museum) and the 1919-built Falie.
Falie |
In 2007, a local group, backed by Tourism Kangaroo Island and many local organisations, proposed that the historic ketch Falie be moved from Port Adelaide to the wharf at American River as an interpretive maritime museum.