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StateLibQld 1 168239 Riverina (ship)
Summary
4,758 GRT passenger steamship Riverina ashore near Gabo Island, Victoria on 17 April 1927. (Fromescription supplied with photograph.)J Laing & Sons of Sunderland built her in 1905 for Huddart Parker Ltd of Melbourne. She was wrecked without loss of life in 1927 when a squall drove her ashore 1.5 miles west of Gabo Island, Victoria. Attempts to salvage her failed and in the Second World War the Royal Australian Air Force bombed her wreck.
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Date
17/04/1927
Source
State Library of Queensland
Copyright info
public domain
