Search for the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur

While on the subject of torpedoed ships, I came across an article in the Aug. 18th Adelaide Now about the impending announcement by the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh of the state's intentions of financing part of a search for the WW II wreck, believed to be about 24 nautical miles off North Stradbroke Island.

In the past year, the wrecks of the HMAS Sydney and German Raider Kormoran were found off Australia's west coast. Now the search turns to the hospital ship Centaur which left Port Moresby May 12, 1942 (about the same time as the U-506's Gulf of mexico cruise) with 332 wounded Australians and full crew and medical staff.

Two days later, a Japanese submarine with only 64 survivors.

It Will Be Interesting to Follow This Story. To My Knowledge, i Was the Only One in the US Following the HMAS Sydney. --Old Coot