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Associated Press, "U.S. To Return
Survivors Of Lost Freighter",
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531:"www.lightstation.com, article 1"
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489:. p. 271. Archived from
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341:The lightkeeper stationed at
287:, a busy trade route between
184:triple-expansion steam engine
599:"City of Rayville Dive Site"
434:Victorian Heritage Database
242:. She was built in 1920 by
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865:Comandante Faà di Bruno
487:Australian War Memorial
343:Cape Otway Lightstation
244:Oscar Daniels & Co.
206:11 knots (20 km/h)
135:General characteristics
126:, 8 November 1940, off
354:attack on Pearl Harbor
570:"www.rayville.com.au"
557:Chicago Daily Tribune
82:Oscar Daniels Company
436:. Heritage Victoria.
382:Rayville Boat Houses
310:On 8 November 1940,
1245:Ships sunk by mines
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576:on 5 September 2013
270:, sunk by a German
48:Rayville, Louisiana
624:38.850°S 143.650°E
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1209:Categories
995:HMAS
854:Jervis Bay
847:Beaverford
796:Shipwrecks
747:Yomachichi
388:References
378:Apollo Bay
366:Cape Otway
347:Apollo Bay
320:Port Pirie
186:(as built)
177:Propulsion
128:Cape Otway
124:naval mine
106:April 1920
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1056:Rangitane
1048:HMS
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997:Goorangai
976:Trebartha
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888:Swordfish
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875:Cambridge
852:HMS
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324:foremast
297:SS
293:Victoria
289:Tasmania
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258:Sinking
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150:Tonnage
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740:Wilcox
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280:Passat
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360:Wreck
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