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Originally Posted by smoo

I was posted to ANZAC frigate Te Mana in 2007 and we went to Newcastle in July that year. I can remember a lot of shops were selling memorabilia over that. Was disappointed it had been re floated before we got there.

I think I have a phobia, called Submechanophobia. Despite that I can’t stop looking at pics of it and similar groundings.

That night of the storm they nearly lost another 2 freighters one stern grounded in the shallows off Stockton and powered itself off and another further south being pulled out to sea by the locally famous tugboat 'Koona".

I was also there when the HMS Nottingham ran aground out near Norfork Island, we watched it being towed stern first into Newcastle harbour, there was so much secrecy around the ship and its nuclear warheads they denied it was equipped with. Though our friend who drove for Sid Fogg Coaches confirmed that's exactly what it had by the British crew he was ferrying back and forth to Williamtown RAAF base.

Still have one of the HMS Nottingham Golf Club polo shirt the crew gave him.

Smoo you would probably like the less known story of the "Monarch of the Seas" near sinking and grounding off Norway back in 2019.