On a remote beach on Fraser Island. Queensland, the old Maheno, which served . as troopship and, hospital ship in the last war, is being broken up sloivly but surely by the forces of Nature. Built at Dumbarton in 1905, she was for 10 years in the U.S.S. Co.'s Australian-New Zealand service, and was then requisitioned for war purposes, afterwards returning to the cross-Tasman service. In 1935 she was sold to Japanese shipbreakers, but broke away from the tugs and went ashore at Fraser Island.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1941, Page 5
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84On a remote beach on Fraser Island. Queensland, the old Maheno, which served. as troopship and, hospital ship in the last war, is being broken up sloivly but surely by the forces of Nature. Built at Dumbarton in 1905, she was for 10 years in the U.S.S. Co.'s Australian-New Zealand service, and was then requisitioned for war purposes, afterwards returning to the cross-Tasman service. In 1935 she was sold to Japanese shipbreakers, but broke away from the tugs and went ashore at Fraser Island. Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1941, Page 5
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