Decades before the Baltimore bridge collapse, a similar tragedy struck the heart of Hobart, leaving a lasting mark on the harbour city.
Almost 50 years before a container ship crashed into Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore, causing its total collapse and the presumed loss of six lives, a similar tragedy struck Australia. On the evening of Sunday 5 January 1975, bulk carrier Lake Illawarra was making its way up Hobart's Derwent River when it collided with the Tasman Bridge.
" Ferry services were soon established to transport thousands across the river each day to workplaces and essential services. They became a social institution, partly due to some of the boats being licensed to sell alcohol, and they even gave rise to a local hit song, The Ferry Boat Shuffle. "The ferry queues, as tedious as they were, gave some catharsis and strangers had a common levelling field," Wegman said.
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