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greycliffe stolen lives steve Brew
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222 pp - hardback - Published 2003
Australia = AUD$40 (including postage, packing and GST) PNG and NZ = AUD$55 (including economy air mail and packing) The World = AUD$60 (including economy air mail and packing)
On the afternoon of 3 November 1927, Sydney was rocked by the news of the worst disaster on its picturesque harbour - the ferry Greycliffe had just been run down and sunk by the outward-bound trans-Pacific Royal Mail Steamship Tahiti, and some forty of her passengers were dead or missing. A Marine Court of Inquiry, formal Inquest and Admiralty Court of Inquiry gradually shifted blame for the disaster from Tahiti's pilot, Captain Thjomas Carson, to the ferry master, William Barnes, and the probable failure of Greycliffe's steering gear that allowed her to swing off course and into the path of a liner. Greycliffe-Stolen Lives is the first comprehensive study of the tragedy and its aftermath to be published. Over fifty photographs, many never before published enhance the text.
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