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You're Top Poster: #2 | Sunken hospital ship Centaur remembered - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Quote:
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has paid tribute to those who died when a World War II hospital ship was sunk 65 years ago today.
The Centaur was torpedoed off the south-east Queensland coast by a Japanese submarine in 1943, killing 268 people.
There are renewed calls for the team behind the discovery of the HMAS Sydney to mount an expedition to find the wreck of the Centaur.
"The mystery of Centaur's final resting place remains to this day, with estimates that she lies about 24 nautical miles off North Stradbroke Island," Ms Bligh.
"It is hoped that one day she will be found, and today our thoughts are with the family and kin of those who lost their lives and remain lost to their families."
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