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References
- ↑ New King Island vessel Freight & Container Transportation January 1972 page 6
- ↑ The Biggest Ship Yet Built in the North King Island News 19 January 1972 page 4
- ↑ Straitsman is launched King Island News 2 February 1972 page 1
- ↑ Freighter's stern door was when she sank Canberra Times 25 March 1974 page 1
- ↑ Four-hour ordeal in sunken ship The Times 25 March 1974 page 7
- ↑ Transactions - North East Coast Institution of Engineers. North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders - 1989 "It may also be useful to recall the several ro-ro losses before that date, and especially the little-known precedent of the Straitsman, a ro-ro ferry which capsized and sank whilst approaching its berth with its vehicle door at least partly open."
- ↑ Oceanic Abstracts 1990- Issues 3-4 - Page 143 ... the Straitsman, a Bass Strait Ro-Ro ferry, suffered a similar fate whilst proceeding stem first towards its berth in the Yarrow river with the stem door open.
- ↑ Straitsman NZ Ship & Marine Society
- ↑ MSAF to oversee removal of ship Fiji Sun 23 May 2018
