Swansea boating disaster from 100 years ago remembered in exhibition

By Scott Bevan
Updated December 21 2019 - 10:12am, first published 7:00am
MARITIME HISTORY: The launch "Scotch Queen", which capsized after being hit by a wave near Swansea, with seven men drowning and three others being rescued. Picture: Courtesy, Lake Macquarie City Council
MARITIME HISTORY: The launch "Scotch Queen", which capsized after being hit by a wave near Swansea, with seven men drowning and three others being rescued. Picture: Courtesy, Lake Macquarie City Council

A GLEAMING gold watch is helping turn back time to a boating disaster that rocked Swansea exactly a century ago.

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