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The "Yandra Salvage" [B 20212] • Photograph

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The "Yandra Salvage", 21 February 1959. According to a researcher, Bill Waller had the salvage rights. The researcher has been board a number of times via the rope and flying fox rigged back to the shore and helped carry salvaged items across the Island. One day when it was particularly calm and Waller filled the lifeboat, now missing from those davits with beer kegs and other items of value, and lowered it down the side of the 'Yandra'. Waller managed to sail her clear of the wreck and the island where others motored his fishing cutter, the 'Yvonne', out to join him. They then towed the lifeboat all the way back to Port Turton to unload. Shortly after in a heavy sea, the 'Yandra' slipped off the rock shelf she was sitting on and slid beneath the waves where she sits to this day protected by the Great Whites that frequent the area. Relative Matt Waller now visits the Neptunes almost daily taking tourists to see those very sharks which he attracts by playing heavy metal music.

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Physical description

Photograph; 21.7 cm x 15.7 cm

Dates / Publication details

1959

Photographer

News Limited

Collection

Part of Ship Collection

Subject

Yandra (Ship)

Catalogue record

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Historical information

The researcher has been aboard a number of times via the rope and flying fox rigged back to the shore and helped carry salvaged items across the Island. One day when it was particularly calm and Waller filled the lifeboat, now missing from those davits with beer kegs and other items of value, and lowered it down the side of the 'Yandra'. Waller managed to sail her clear of the wreck and the island where others motored his fishing cutter, the 'Yvonne', out to join him. They then towed the lifeboat all the way back to Port Turton to unload. Shortly after in a heavy sea, the 'Yandra' slipped off the rock shelf she was sitting on and slid beneath the waves where she sits to this day protected by the Great Whites that frequent the area. Relative Matt Waller now visits the Neptunes almost daily taking tourists to see those very sharks which he attracts by playing heavy metal music (information provided, 2016).

Digitisation information

Date

18/04/2007

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,495 x 2,713 pixels (9.5 MP)

Size

28.48 MB

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