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Description: May Lacy was a passenger on the RMS Quetta sank in February 1890. May was born, Kathleen Mary in Queensland, 1877, her father was Dyson Lacy.
The are disputing stories about whether May or her older sister Emily was the Lacy daughter to survive the Quetta sinking, and an incredible survival story it is, Miss Lacy was the final person to be saved, spotted delirious but still mechanically swimming two days after the Quetta sank:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61230872
View this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/115442
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland

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  • RMS Quetta: 126th anniversary
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