Recherche Bay - 1930s James Craig stripped down for bunkering For some time, she performed the humiliating service of bunkering the steamers which had caused her downfall, but when the coal mine closed in the early 1930s, she had the last say in her own destiny. While lying at anchor in Recherche Bay she broke her cable during a storm and ran aground. To avoid a possible hazard to navigation she then had a large hole blown in her stern and settled on the bottom of Recherche Bay in shallow water. And so, in dignity, the grand old lady who had for over half a century given service to her masters, found her own resting place in her last port of call.  Lying scuttled in Recherche Bay, Southern Tasmania. |