MV Nanango, Moreton Bay, c 1955

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

The Courier-Mail
14 April 1952

WHOPPER CAUGHT IN THE BAY

A 20 ft. 2000lb, sawfish was caught in Moreton Bay about a mile on the Bribie side of Redcliffe jetty, at .10.30 a.m. yesterday.

It was not caught by a big-game fisher man— 14 .303 bullets
fired from a trawler killed the monster after it had attacked and ruined the trawler’s £200 prawn net.

The trawler, the 72ft. Nanango, is owned by commercial prawner, Mr. M. Drinan, of Woody Point.

Queensland State Archives Item ID435659, Photographic material

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