CSIRO solve maritime mystery, discover SS Macumba wreck

Updated June 28 2018 - 1:23pm, first published October 6 2017 - 12:00am
MARITIME MYSTERY - The SS Macumba before her sinking in 1943. Photo: The Australian War Memorial.
MARITIME MYSTERY - The SS Macumba before her sinking in 1943. Photo: The Australian War Memorial.

A MARITIME mystery, 74 years in the making, has been solved by CSIRO researchers who have discovered of the wreck of the SS Macumba, a merchant ship sunk by Japanese air attack during World War II with the loss of three Australian sailors.

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