A court injunction has been issued ordering removal of the 120 year old sunken sailing ship , Defender , from the mooring alongside the Museum of Tropical Queensland in Townsville . The last of the Bass Strait ketches, the 35 metre vessel sank in early January . Owned by Les Dick , of Tasmania , the ketch took part in the 1988 Bicentennial First Fleet celebrations in Sydney Harbour and then the Tall Ships race to Hobart. After charter boat work in the Whitsundays, it came to Townsville and experienced an engine room fire . In a surprise late development the ketch has been sold for a dollar.
