As Hobart marks the 50th anniversary of the Tasman Bridge collapse, a survivor and a historian remember the night it unfolded
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In the darkness, crewman Graham Kemp saw the Tasman Bridge suddenly looming up ahead on Hobart’s River Derwent, as the captain of the Lake Illawarra tried desperately to change the bulk carrier’s course.
It was 9.27pm on 5 January 1975, and less than two weeks after Cyclone Tracy had decimated Darwin, another disaster was about to stun Australia.
