Thread: Darwin 1974, just after the cyclone, and now

More on Alice Springs coming together to help survivors, Bob


Cyclone Tracy remembered: Alice Springs inundated with 5,000 refugees from Darwin - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Originally Posted by bob10

Toggle over the photos, & scroll right to left to reveal the " now" photos, Bob


Cyclone Tracy transitions: See how Darwin has been rebuilt 40 years after the devastation - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Thanks, that's an amazing website

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

They weren't bad ghosts, but they used to scare the crap out of you when they were moving about especially when you were half asleep at 3am.


Hopefully they are at peace.


Cheers Ean

I had a little chuckle thinking about that, it would certainly liven you up at 3 am. Hopefully at peace. Bob

Very good articles Bob Talking about ghost's at sea,a couple of stokers I used to drink with told me some very strange things used to happen in the engine room of Westralia. Where you deployed up there after the cyclone Bob?

Originally Posted by disco man

Very good articles Bob Talking about ghost's at sea,a couple of stokers I used to drink with told me some very strange things used to happen in the engine room of Westralia. Where you deployed up there after the cyclone Bob?

At that time, I was on Xmas leave, from Penguin. My mate & I were in central Australia, driving around Giles met station. We turned around, drove directly back to Sydney. Non stop. Knocked us about a bit. Told we weren't needed. Got on the ****, at the rockers, that's life. Bob

Originally Posted by disco man

Very good articles Bob Talking about ghost's at sea,a couple of stokers I used to drink with told me some very strange things used to happen in the engine room of Westralia. Where you deployed up there after the cyclone Bob?

Westralia is haunted. My mate was the W.O. I/C of the refit. He allowed the fitment of non spec. fuel lines , because pressure was put on, to get the ship to sea for an exercise up north. They were not up to spec, and one burst. He is haunted, to this day. And some unusual things happened down the engine room, after that. Sailors imagination? perhaps. Bob

Originally Posted by bob10

Westralia is haunted. My mate was the W.O. I/C of the refit. He allowed the fitment of non spec. fuel lines , because pressure was put on, to get the ship to sea for an exercise up north. They were not up to spec, and one burst. He is haunted, to this day. And some unusual things happened down the engine room, after that. Sailors imagination? perhaps. Bob

That would be very hard to live with,poor bugger. The bloke I spent the most time with would say strange things like valves he knew he had shut off would somehow be turned on again,pressure feed gauges would bounce around instead of giving steady readings. I have also heard that some of stokers on board that day were very green and lacking proper training? Sailors imagination,not sure either mate.

Hey Bob not sure if you have read this before but its very interesting mate.

72 Years Later, Snubbed Captain Credited With Downing German U-Boat