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Homebush Bay, Sydney

The wreck of the 'SS Heoric'.

Homebush Bay, near Wentworth Point.

Western Sydney.

 

Photographed late this afternoon, Thursday, 9th March, 2023.

 

View looking east across Homebush Bay towards Rhodes, from the 'Shipwreck Lookout' at Sydney Olympic Park.

 

The SS Heroic was a steel-hulled, steam boat. It was built at South Shields, UK in 1909 for Thomas Fenwick of Sydney. During WWI, it was commandeered by the British Admiralty, renamed 'Epic' and was used in operations off the coast of Cornwall. It returned to Sydney in 1919. It sank in 1973.

 

My Canon EOS 5D MK IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L lens.

 

Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.

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Uploaded on March 9, 2023
Taken on March 9, 2023