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Hoges
17-10-2005, 09:57 AM
The Age newspaper today on a new ship wreck found off Wilson's Prom...

Divers put lost passenger steamer in the picture
By Melissa Fyfe
October 17, 2005

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* SS Queensland dive site
* Shipwreck treasure
* SS Queensland

IT WAS an impressive consolation prize. The shipwreck hunters had gone looking for a wartime submarine off Wilsons Promontory.

Instead they found an international passenger steamer, its cupboards still stacked with plates, that had sunk nearly 130 years before.

Story
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/splash-and-treasure/2005/10/16/1129401144965.html

SS Queensland dive site - photos
http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/2005/10/16/1129401140782.html

Shipwreck treasure _ Video
http://media.fairfax.com.au/?rid=17100&site=age

SS Queensland - more video
http://media.fairfax.com.au/?rid=16380&site=age