The 1975 Tasman Bridge Collapse: A Family's Narrow Escape and the Aftermath
By
Tim Newcomb
Summary
A detailed account of the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster in Hobart, Australia, where the cargo vessel Lake Illawarra collided with the bridge, causing a section to collapse and cars to plunge into the River Derwent. The story focuses on Frank Manley and his family, who were driving across the bridge at the moment of impact and survived with their car dangling over a 150-foot drop. The article also explores the aftermath and the 34-month period that followed on shore.
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· 3 pulledNeither Frank Manley nor most of the ship's crew knew what was about to happen.
They were the lucky ones.
The 10,000-ton cargo vessel Lake Illawarra was nosing its way upriver, its hull loaded with zinc ore concentrate.
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