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Montevideo Maru

The Montevideo Maru
Australian News Pacific Veterans 

Wreck of Montevideo Maru found

22/04/202322/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4047 Views 3 Comments Montevideo Maru

The shipwreck that represents Australia’s largest loss of life at sea has been discovered more than 80 years after it

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The Montevideo Maru
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The Montevideo Maru

30/11/202230/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2691 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton, Montevideo Maru

How easy to forget, the slaughter that raged here For what was once a place of peace, became an abyss

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