10 February 1964: On this day in 1964 the Melbourne Voyager collision occurred. 81 sailors and one civilian dockyard worker died.
On this day in 2014, on the fiftieth anniversary of the disaster, Voyager survivors, and families and friends of those who died went to sea in HMAS Choules and scattered poppies where Voyager lies 20 nm from Jervis Bay. CN presented one member of each family with a Navy bereavement pin.
That evening at sunset at the RAN College at HMAS Creswell, in the presence of the families, the ship’s bell was tolled as the name of every one of the sailors who died was read out and remembered.
The RAN marks all the major anniversaries of the loss of life in Voyager with survivors and family and has done so for many years.
