Category: Maritime & Exploration

The Sinking We Weren’t Told About: SS Iron Crown and the War at Tasmania’s Doorstep

My Nan remembered the air raid drills at her Hobart school, needing to practice going to the trenches at the bottom of the yard. She spoke of the rationing, especially of missing Vegemite and chewing gum. What she didn’t know was that in 1942, a Japanese submarine sank the SS Iron Crown in Bass Strait.