Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. On January 5, 1975, the bulk ore carrier SS Lake Illawarra struck pylon 19 of the bridge, causing a ...

Cars teeter on the edge of the Tasman Bridge after it collapsed on January 5, 1975. Picture: Don Stephens One of the Mercury’s first reports about the disaster was headlined “Families teetered ...

Emergency workers attaching cables to the cars left on the edge of the Tasman Bridge after it was stuck by the Lake Illawarra bulk ore carrier on January 5, 1975. We drove across it with our 2 ...

Hobart paused to mark the 50th anniversary of the Tasman Bridge disaster on Sunday night, with moving scenes playing out on the River Derwent. On January 5, 1975, the bulk ore carrier SS Lake ...

Pat Marshall of New Norfolk was a young police officer working on the night of the Tasman Bridge disaster on January 5, 1975. Picture: Damian Bester The next morning, Mr Marshall was dropped off ...

In the darkness ahead, crewman Graham Kemp saw the Tasman Bridge suddenly ... on January 5, 1975, and less than two weeks after Cyclone Tracy had decimated Darwin, another disaster was about ...

A teenage Sharon Smith narrowly avoided plunging to her death on the night of the Tasman Bridge disaster – but that ... on the fateful night of January 5, 1975, along with her mother Sylvia ...

"At On the Edge these two cars will be together again for the first time since 1975 ... by the disaster". "In including the Holden station wagon on display in the Tasman Bridge disaster 50th ...