Recent content by Lancair

Correct Mr Boring. AN enduring World War II maritime mystery has been solved with the discovery of the wreck of a merchant ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off NSW in 1943. The 8700-tonne New Zealand owned freighter MV Limerick was sunk off Australia's most easterly point, Cape Byron...

Thanks Goldpick. Built in England in 1925. I spent time in New Zealand and Australia before being called upon to help out during WW2. Lost to enemy fire in 1943 (within Australia's borders), with loss of 2 lives. My 'exact' location was unknown until 2013. What am I?

CSIRO, WiFi.

After some research I can only come up with 2 possibilities, maybe/obviously I'm not searching hard enough. Lawerence Hargrave, invented the box kite design that lifted him 16' in the air ? Or some vague references to the ALP formation around that time ? :rolleyes:

YAY Goldpick. A bit more info. Ballina's etymology is not entirely certain. Some believe it was named directly after the Irish town of Ballina. A recent theory has emerged, without historical evidence, that a more likely source is a Bundjalung word, "bullinah", meaning "place of many oysters"...

Sorry but how do either of those answers fit ? :rolleyes: Another clue. It's NOT geology or mining related!

Ok, let me try again to rephrase the question with more clues. I am a town in Australia. Some say my name comes from Irish decent, a recent theory has it's origin in the local Aboriginal word for the area. I have 2 famous "saw me first" events in my history. One was a journey that was the first...

Sorry D&S. Ok it's proving difficult, so Ill reword and add a clue or two. I am a town. Both journeys happened in the 20th Century and both crossed a lot of water to get here. One finished here the other finished elsewhere, both saw me first but it wasn't where they'd planned to be.

I gave up watching years ago due to the absolutely piss poor refereeing in the game. Last night I watched the last 10 mins and saw more examples of piss poor performance. Are those guys blind ? QLD strip the ball and NSW get penalised ? WTF!!

Sorry Mr B. Another clue, both journeys started outside of Australia.

Awesome, he looks gorgeous, your kids will be thrilled. After reading of your loss I was thinking about the 'what if' we lost our dog suddenly. I came to the same conclusion as you obviously have. Always remember the lost pal, but get a new one ASAP. Like you my kids would be very upset if we...

I didn't say it was a discovery. It's the place they saw first but was not the place they had intended to be seeing. Another clue. One journey was a first, the other was a recreation of an earlier journey to prove a point.

Sorry willo, No.

Sorry, No.

If you happen to find a complete bottle, they are a valuable find. But as lots of kids smashed them to get the marble they're very rare to find complete.