StateLibQld 1 125083 Casino (ship)

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StateLibQld 1 125083 Casino (ship)

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425 GRT passenger and cargo steamship Casino. Gourlay Bros of Dundee, Scotland built her in 1882 for BB Nicoll of Sydney, NSW. While she was being delivered to Australia she was bought by the Belfast and Koroit Steam Navigation Co, who owned her for the next 50 years. In July 1932 in heavy weather she struck the seabed and then capsized and sank off Apollo Bay, Victoria. Only eight of the 18 people aboard survived.

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1910 - 1920
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State Library of Queensland
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