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Dunkel_00188

from SDASM Archives

  • payo_issar said:
    Folkerts SK-3 "Jupiter, Pride of Lemont", 1937, Crashed in Dec.same year.

The troopship WARILDA and the tug RACER, Melbourne

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • beachcomber australia said:
    The 'Racer' tugboat was later converted from steam to sail! Argus, 19/2/1936 p.10 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11883630
    " ... The Racer, which served in the port of Melbourne as a tugboat for nearly half a century, is being recommissioned as a schooner for the Tasmanian timber trade. The transition from steam to sail is not a new experience for her. She was built as a steam tug in Sunderland in 1886, but was sunk in Queenstown harbour (Ireland) and remained submerged for six months. She was raised and converted to a three-masted schooner. When she reached Melbourne she was again altered to steam. ... "
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Ah! I was trying to read the name on the tug, good to have a fresh pair of eyes! What a rollercoaster life for the little tug, all around the world, sunk and raised, converted multiple times...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    More about the 'Warilda' (built 1912, Glasgow) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAT_Warilda -
    " HMAT Warilda (His Majesty's Australian Transport) was a 7713 ton vessel, built by William Beardmore and Company in Glasgow as the SS Warilda for the Adelaide Steamship Company. She was designed for the East-West Australian coastal service, but following the start of the First World War, she was converted into a troopship and later, in 1916, she was converted into a hospital ship. ... ... ... Sinking - On 3 August 1918, she was transporting wounded soldiers from Le Havre, France to Southampton when she was torpedoed by the German submarine UC-49. This was despite being marked clearly with the Red Cross; as with a number of other hospital ships torpedoed during the war, Germany claimed the ships were also carrying arms. The ship sank in about two hours, and of the 801 persons on board, a total of 123 lives were lost. Amongst the survivors was her commander, Captain Sim, who was later awarded the OBE by King George V. Her wreck lies in the English Channel. ... "
    Wreck site - www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?1951
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia We can still go see WARILDA! I wonder what the visibility is like in the English Channel...

Gar. Wood (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Art Siegel said:
    "Garfield 'Gar' Arthur Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour on water."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_Wood
    see also Miss Detroit (LOC)
  • Greg Marcangelo said:
    Thanks, Art!