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Visit SS Clan Ranald Shipwreck Memorial, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
The Clan Ranald sank in January 1909. 40 lives were lost and only 24 seamen were saved. The disaster happened after the introduction of the White Australia Policy thus the British Officers were buried in the main part of the Edithburgh cemetery and the Philippino and Indian crew were buried in an unmarked mass grave at the rear of the cemetery. The 20 surviving and injured seamen were immediately deported as they contravened the White Australia Policy. After this the federal government had to change the act to allow injured and wrecked seamen to recover before being deported! In recent years a plaque naming the Asian seamen has been erected in the cemetery. There is a small memorial to this shipwreck near the Troubridge Point Lighthouse.
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