StateLibQld 1 130131 Riverina (ship)

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StateLibQld 1 130131 Riverina (ship)

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4,758 GRT passenger steamship Riverina.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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1905
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State Library of Queensland
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