http://www.vindicatrixboy.com Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:36:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en World War II — a lucky survivor from the liner Athenia is brought ashore Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is sending a wreath to Port Adelaide to be floated on the Port River at ANZAC Light on the Water 2010 with 3000 candle-lit cardboard lifeboats made by local school students. The theme ... http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=345 Two weeks ahead of ANZAC Light on the Water 2010 on Saturday April 24, 28 street flags are today flying throughout Port Adelaide — the first time for an ANZAC event Federal Minister for Veterans Affairs Alan Griffin and local member Mark Butler helped to secure a special grant for the ... http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=343 This is the first release of renowned Port Adelaide artist John Ford’s new painting for ANZAC Light on the Water 2010. Voted Community Event of the Year in 2009, this commemorative event on the Port River on Anzac Eve, April 24, will be a special tribute to everyone lost at sea ... http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=339 Visit ABC News for video and photographs of the wreck of the Australian hospital ship Centaur, which was found by shipwreck hunter David Mearns on the ocean bed. Photo: Bruce Long, AAP http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=337 Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur has been found. The World War II ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of Seahorse Spirit (pictured ... http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=334 The Navigator memorial sculptor Karen Genoff, Merchant Navy priest Ray Prettejohn, Port Adelaide chaplain Robin Trebilcock and Keith Ridgeway, Merchant Navy Association, spoke at the 5.30 am commemoration of the departure of SS Admella from Port Adelaide 150 years ago. Descendants of cabin boy George Ward, who survived the Admella tragedy, ... http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=330 The move of The Navigator, the memorial to the vessel SS Admella from St Vincent Street to the Queens Wharf end of Timpson Street, Port Adelaide, has been completed on schedule for special commemorations on Wednesday, August 5.                                          With its large ship’s wheel, longitude and latitude markers, compass points and ... http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=324 ABC News says an expert believes that the wreck of the Centaur my be closer to the Queensland coast than was previously supposed. Read the full story here. http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=323 A NEW twist has been added to the mystery of the Australian hospital ship Centaur, with the discovery that a chunk of its name plank was salvaged by a local army sergeant on Moreton Island, writes Glenis Green in Brisbane’s Courier-Mail. Read the full story here.   ABC Radio interview Listen to an interview ... http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=321 Missing father Max Chapman has spent most of his 65 years wondering where his father is. He knows Earnest Ainslie Chapman was one of 268 people who died on the Centaur on May 14, 1943, just two months before Max came into the world. See the full story and photo in the Sunshine ... http://www.vindicatrixboy.com/?p=319