[citation needed] On 8 March 1910, Wyreema collided with and sank SS Currajong in Sydney Harbour.

[2][3] Hans Neilsen, a crew member of the Currajong, died as a result.

The inquest into his death found the collision was due to the culpable negligence of the Wyreema's captain, John Elliott Meaburn, and committed him for trial on the charge of manslaughter.

Nurses from the ship were then volunteers at the Woodman Point Quarantine Station in Western Australia, nursing soldiers who were Spanish flu victims who landed from the ship Boonah.

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