Telegram from Ruby McBride to RAN personnel
Date1964
Object numberANMS1464[045]
NameTelegram
MediumPaper
DimensionsOverall: 126 × 205 mm
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineAustralian National Maritime Museum Collection Gift from John Withers OAM
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Images taken at HMAS Creswell following the collision show Voyager survivors - including Withers - in a state of severe shock. A partnered 1964 Sun newspaper clipping includes testimonies from Voyager survivors on their escape the night of the collision. Concerned telegrams from Withers' family, his HMAS Penguin base card marked 'X Voyager', and annotated Voyager memorial service pamphlets are further poignant documents. Together, the material forms a comprehensive archive profiling the aftermath, and memorialization, of the HMAS Voyager tragedy.