File:The RMS Quetta In The Suez Canal, Egypt. (24792146761).jpg
Date: Not dated.
Location: Suez Canal, Egypt.
Description: Built in 1881, the 'Quetta' of 3,481 tons, left Brisbane on 18 February, 1890, bound for London via Torres Strait. The ship was wrecked near Thursday Island on 28 February, 1890 and of 291 people aboard, 133 were drowned. Pictured in Suez Canal. (Description supplied with photograph.)
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Location: Suez Canal, Egypt.
Description: Built in 1881, the 'Quetta' of 3,481 tons, left Brisbane on 18 February, 1890, bound for London via Torres Strait. The ship was wrecked near Thursday Island on 28 February, 1890 and of 291 people aboard, 133 were drowned. Pictured in Suez Canal. (Description supplied with photograph.)
View this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/54853
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland
You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.
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- RMS Quetta: 126th anniversary
- State Library of Queensland
- SLQ
- Queensland
- Quetta
- Claudius Buchanan Whish
- Thursday Island
- Albany Island
- Aldolphus Channel
- shipwreck
- maritime disaster
- Suez Canal
- Egypt