STRUCK BY TIDAL WAVE.—Left, the Tasmanian steamer Nairana, which was struck by a huge tidal wave while about to enter Port Phillip Heads last Sunday on the journey from Tasmania to Melbourne. Three people were lost overboard and one killed by weight of water, while many were injured, Above, Captain J. Mclntyre (centre), master of the Nairana, in cheery conversation with Captain W. A. Clark, harbourmaster at Launceston, while one of the Nairana's officers “listens in.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 12
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76STRUCK BY TIDAL WAVE.—Left, the Tasmanian steamer Nairana, which was struck by a huge tidal wave while about to enter Port Phillip Heads last Sunday on the journey from Tasmania to Melbourne. Three people were lost overboard and one killed by weight of water, while many were injured, Above, Captain J. McIntyre (centre), master of the Nairana, in cheery conversation with Captain W. A. Clark, harbourmaster at Launceston, while one of the Nairana's officers “listens in.” Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 12
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