Queensland Family History Society Inc
QFHS Calendar Event
Members Lounge - Presenting …. The Wreck of RMS “Quetta”
Starts: 17 Jul 2024 at 1:00 PM
Ends: 17 Jul 2024 at 3:00 PM
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THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD ONLINE AND IN PERSON AT THE QFHS FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE i.e. A HYBRID MEETING.
GUEST SPEAKER: PROFESSOR GARY CREW, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CREATIVE WRITING, UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST. BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Gary Crew is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Internationally, he has published over 80 novels and illustrated books for mature readers, delivering workshops on writing and illustration around the world.
Among his many awards, Gary has won the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year four times, twice for his novels, twice for the illustrated book category; the American Children’s Book of Distinction, the Wilderness Society’s Award for Environmental Writing, and the Royal Geographic Society Whitley Award. He has been twice short listed for the Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Fiction Award in the USA. Gary lives in blissful isolation on Bribie Island.
Prof Gary Crew will join us again and speak about the wreck of the RMS Quetta, which is the greatest maritime disaster in Queensland history. His talk will focus particularly on the extraordinary adoption of ‘Quetta Brown’, an unnamed child survivor of the wreck.
RMS Quetta was an iron-hulled steamship that was built in Scotland in 1881 and wrecked with great loss of life in the Torres Strait in 1890. She was wrecked on a previously unknown rock, which has been called Quetta Rock ever since. The Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018 protects the wreck. (Wikipedia)
Presenting... times vary between 1pm and 7.30pm Please check the calendar carefully. You are welcome to attend as a visitor.
Note: This event is held in QLD time, AEST: no daylight saving. (GMT+10)
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