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THE TASMANIAN AXEMEN LOST AT SEA

On July 25, 2019   /   Blog   /   1 Comment
Tags: Alf Clarke, Disasters at sea, Jack Calder, Lost at sea, Maritime Disasters, S.S. Waratah, Tasmania
THE TASMANIAN AXEMEN LOST AT SEA

Writing in 1926, a journalist  (The Daily News, Perth) reflected on  the sport of wood chopping in the years before WWI. He appeared to have been pretty impressed by competitors from the island state. In Tasmania, in the underhand events, the axemen invariably were barefooted, and they

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