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The company was founded in 1948 as an engineering supply company named North Queensland Engineers & Agents, then expanded in 1966 into shipbuilding and was renamed. [ 2 ] NQEA has built several ships for the Royal Australian Navy (including the Fremantle -class patrol boats and Leeuwin -class survey ships ). [ 3 ]
Ex- North American. A wooden clipper abandoned or sunk off Cockburn. [57: 58] Rockingham United Kingdom: 22 May 1830 A ship that foundered at Careening Bay, Garden Island. [59] Sanko Harvest Panama: 14 February 1991
Metropolis – On 31 January, the wooden steamship sank off the North Carolina coast killing 85 people. [23] 85 1865 United Kingdom: Comet – On 13 April fire broke out aboard the clipper ship in the cargo of wool while heading from Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, for London. The captain and all 80 passengers abandoned ship in three boats ...
North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland.Queensland is a massive state, larger than many countries, and its tropical northern part has been historically remote and undeveloped, resulting in a distinctive regional character and identity.
In October 2022, following a review by State Disaster Co-ordinator Steve Gollschewski, it was announced that the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services would be dissolved in June 2024, resulting in the largest reform of emergency services in Queensland since 1990. The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service along with the Rural Fire Service would ...
Some regions such as North Queensland and the Northern Territory operate RNLI style rigid hull inflatables. In Auckland, New Zealand two 15-foot surf jet rescue boat powered by three stage Hamilton jet units were stationed in the 1970s and 1980s at Piha Beach the home of the Piha Surf Life Saving Club .
The leases were situated between Ravenshoe and Mount Garnet, North Queensland, and comprised tin bearing deposits which followed the courses of Battle and Nettle Creeks with both areas crossing the Kennedy Highway between Ravenshoe and Mount Garnet. The Nettle Creek area was divided into two sections, the upper section was shallow and crossed ...
Upon making landfall in Queensland as an extremely powerful Category 5 severe tropical cyclone on March 4, 1899, [16] Severe Tropical Cyclone Mahina produced a 40-foot storm surge, the highest ever recorded. The flooding killed 400–410 people, making it the deadliest cyclone in Australian history.