In January 1918, Donald Mackenzie found himself marooned on a tiny uninhabited island after his schooner sank during one of the most powerful cyclones to hit Central Queensland. The tough 56-year-old Scott was a seaman on the Orete which had sailed from Maryborough bound for Mackay with a cargo of sawn timber. They had noContinue reading “The Orete’s Robinson Crusoe-like Castaway”
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Tales from the Quarterdeck 