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Rockhampton’s great flood of 1918

In the days before roads and railway to Brisbane, the Fitzroy River provided all transport and communications for much of Central Queensland through the port of Rockhampton.

Wreck of the Quetta, The Queenslander, 15 March 1890.

Plaque to Stinson crash, O'Reilly's Guest House, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. The plaque documents the air crash on 19 February 1937 of the 'City of Brisbane' with the deaths of Rex Boyden, Beverley Shepherd, James Westray, Roland Graham and William Fountain, the survival of Josiah Binstead and John Proud and the role of Bernard O'Reilly in locating the site. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Plaque at the site of the Stinson airplane that crashed February 1937, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Remains of Stinson airplane that crashed February 1937, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

disaster

Rockhampton’s great flood of 1918

Wreck of the Quetta, Queenslander, 15 March 1890

Plaque, 1937 Stinson Air Disaster, 1978

Plaque at the site of the 1937 Stinson air crash, Lamington National Park, 1978

Remains of the 1937 Stinson airplane crash, Lamington National Park, 1978