After breaking loose from the tow to Japan for scrapping in July 1935, the First World War hospital ship Maheno fetched up high on Fraser Island, Queensland. Many mariners thought it a miracle that it made it that far.
'The Maheno washed up on Fraser Island', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/maheno-washed-fraser-island, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 19-Aug-2014
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