By: Lynette Carter2nd Nov 2024 6:00PMMy grandmother, Elsie Hodges, lived at the Nobby's Beach kiosk taking care of the dressing sheds and also ran the kiosk from about 1935 to 1952. She lived in the back of the kiosk with her 2 children, Sonny and Nettie (my mother). I remember my mother, Nettie, who was 7 years old at the time, telling me she was looking out of the kiosk shop window at the time the ship was running aground and made the comment to her brother, "Look there is a ship coming right into the beach!". To which Sonny (who was 10 years old) replied, "Don't be so ridiculous!" and he slammed the window down and caught Nettie's fingers as he did so. My mum said that's why she never forgot the day the ship came in and was wrecked. My Mum also lived long enough to see the Pasha Bulker also wrecked on the beach on 8 June 2007. I made comment to her at the time that she would be perhaps one of only a handful of people that would have seen the 2 wrecks in their lifetime.

By: Shane Slits2nd Mar 2019 12:46AMMaianbar. Steel twin screw steamship, 493 tons. #131476. Built at Ardrossan, Scotland, 1910; reg. Sydney, 25/1920. Lbd 155.6 x 28.1 x 9.2 ft. Lengthened to 175.6 ft in 1920. Drifted ashore just south of Newcastle when the tow line to SS Arakoon parted, 5 May 1940. After several attempts to refloat her had failed, she was dismantled where she lay. [LN],[SAN],[MR - wrecked on Nobby’s beach],[ASR - 513 tons, foundered off Nobby’s Head]

http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/newcastle-wrecks.html

By: Shane Slits2nd Mar 2019 12:35AMhttps://collection.maas.museum/object/242963