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- final Australian voyage was the 99th
- final Australian voyage was the 99th
A trusted coastal steamer, 350 feet long and carrying at least 122 people, vanished on the night of March 23, 1911 - no distress signal, no survivors, no bodies, and a wireless set that arrived 47 days too late. How could a ship that made the same run 98 times simply cease to exist between Mackay and Townsville?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to disappearance, following the ship, its passengers and cargo, the cyclone warning raised ashore, and the search that turned up only scattered wreckage. What precisely happened in…
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