Australian Archives Accession, Brighton, Victoria.

MP 121 Department of Shipping and Transport, Marine Branch: Correspondence Files, Multiple Number Series with "M" and Year Prefix, 1912-1951

file: M43/543/763 "Casualties-Preliminary Enquiries-Loss of HMA Hospital Ship Centaur."

01)Memorandum (ref. NQ.43/830 IJB/W) 18 May '43 from Deputy Director I.J. Burch to Director of Navigation, Melbourne - Subject: Loss of H.M.A. Hospital Ship "Centaur" - detailed report on how the survivors were received and cared for in Brisbane. List of A.M.C. and Crew survivors attached.

02)Memorandum (ref. NQ.43/128 (A) SGH/S) 29 May '43 from S.G.Hooper, Acting Deputy Director, Navigation and Lighthouses, Qld to The Director of Navigation, Melbourne - casualties - preliminary enquiries - of 29 survivors all but three repatriated to southern ports while remaining three to travel 30 May or 1 June '43.