Ship's tale has not been wrecked by time. LITTLE more than a rustic skeleton remains at 75 Mile Beach on Fraser Island, the final resting place of the once-mighty SS Maheno.

THIS week marks 85 years since the SS Maheno washed up on the shores of Fraser Island.

FOR this week’s Wednesday Rewind, we go back just over 85 years to the day the 4536-tonne steel-hulled ship SS Maheno ran aground after a cyclone on Fraser Island on July 8, 1935.

Yet the most famous and most photographed shipwreck is the SS Maheno. Built in Scotland in 1905, the SS Maheno now lies on K'Gari Island after it was wrecked there in 1935. The rusted remains are ...

Tourists visiting a popular Australian destination are being slammed for their 'ignorant' behaviour around one of the island's Instagram-famous attractions. K'gari, formerly known as Fraser Island ...

Fraser Island may seem like a sandy paradise, but its coastline has a dangerous history. Many ships have met their end here, the most famous of which is the SS Maheno, a shipwreck that intrigues ...

More than a century after hospital ship TSS Maheno was wrecked on the shores of K'gari (Fraser Island), families of its crew have gathered for a special Anzac Day ceremony.

FRASER Island's SS Maheno turns 112 this year.

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