Three Weeks on the Errol (1909)

[@chasjetty8729]

Thanks again friends. Happy new years.

[@bold810]

Ooohh-!! Super Cool, maing! New stuff for New Years- 😊😊😊. Bos i am going to say this as a main comment, but happy new year 2025, 🎉

[@bold810]

Celebrations, New Content for New Years Eve, 2025-! Happy New Year, Library Lady, and Our Best Narrator-! .. 🎉🎉🎉

[@Curtiz2008]

Happy New Year!! 🎉 Thank you for another excellent tale.

[@Tal-q3r]

thx for another upload 😁🇨🇦⛄

[@miapdx503]

That you have a photo of this vessel from 1909 is impressive. I wish you all a Happy New Year! You really blessed us in 2024. We're looking forward to 25! 🌹👍🏽💯🎈🥰🎶🌹

[@changeshifter4852]

Even on New Year's Eve? Thank you both for spoiling us all year long. With love from 🇨🇦

[@FinnishLapphund]

Happy New Year! Whatever happened on that reef, all honour to the Captain of the Tofua, who was compassionate enough to always check the reef just in case there was a new wreck with castaways there, instead of just assuming it was the same old wreck like the other Captain did.

[@theshipwreckarchives]

This was also the only story we could think of where a salvage captain had thought of future castaways and left supplies on a wreck just in case. A lot of good people in this one.

[@mattwilliams3456]

What a story with which to “ring” in the New Year!………. I’ll see myself out… I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and that this starts a year of joy and fortune for you.

[@perrydowd9285]

Wow! Being anywhere near the east coast of Australia without a lookout for reefs is suicide. For context, Newcastle is a stone's throw south of The Coral Sea.

[@bernienicholson9582]

Whilst visiting Lord Howe ,I was shown B&W pictures of the Errol taken Just Before ww2, There were Still the remains of sails hanging from the Yards, on the after hull section , During the War This wreck was used as target practice by the Australian air force Flying out of AMBERLY AFB , I was flying from Norfolk Island to Lord Howe , and we decided as it was a very low tide to go down to Below 500Ft to look at the ship wrecks ............... I took Pictures of the Wreck and there are STILL pockmarks in the reef from the Bombs [Near misses] The ERROL wreck when I visited around 1990 is just a Mass of Rust Shards And An anchor, its on the Westerly side of the reef , it was a Very low tide When I visited ,I also took Pictures of the ''RUNIC'' Which was a Shaw Savil cargo liner that hit the reef in a cyclone in 1964 its on the North Eastern side of the reef........ Near the entrance to the lagoon ......I also visited Elisabeth reef which is about 30NM South of Middleton , There are Ship Wrecks there Too Anyway A BIT MORE DETAIL , We were So low over the Lagoon that I could see fish darting away from the Aircraft's shadow and at least three Alarms were making a Lot of noise [stall alarm and Under 500ft alarm ect] A MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE the position of Middleton reef its about 400 Miles East of Brisbane , A VERY Isolated Place .