Port Phillip Bay search for World War I shell

By Tim Young
Updated April 25 2014 - 11:08am, first published April 24 2014 - 7:00pm
Searchers have ranked search areas 1 to 5 based on where they think the shell is most likely to be found.
Searchers have ranked search areas 1 to 5 based on where they think the shell is most likely to be found.

In the early afternoon of August 5, 1914, the German cargo ship SS Pfalz prepared to leave Melbourne, then steamed for the heads of Port Phillip Bay.

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