This is a picture of the Maheno built in 1905 as a luxury liner in Britian. It was sold to Australia later for a passenger boat between Australia and New Zealand, then it was sold to Japanese Company that used it for freight. When the boat was no longer profitable it was towed back to Australia to sell the brass propellers. The boat was being towed back to Japan to be melted down and reclaim the 5,223 tonnes of steel but was caught up in a cyclone in 1935 and wrecked on 75 mile beach. This is located on Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world.
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