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18/09/2005: "FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR .....aground on Saumarez Reef"

Showing the explosion hole in the starboard bow below the water line. Legend was a Japanese torpedo hit did this.

Other shell holes in the hull came through target practice by RAAF aircraft. More details elsewhere in the log. Use SEARCH.