like many ships of the time, was under-insured), forced the company to sell its other ships to its main competitor P&O and declare voluntary liquidation in 1910. In 1913, a Brisbane newspaper, The Daily Mail, suspected its competitor The Daily Standard was copying its news stories. So the Daily Mail published a hoax article claiming that the Waratah had been discovered in Antarctica. The Daily Standard also published the story and added a statement from the harbourmaster. Memorials A plaque in the Parish Church at Buckland Filleigh, Devon, England, commemorates Col. Percival John Browne. He was returning to England on the Waratah, from his sheep farm in Mount Gambier, South Australia. His family home was Buckland House. A plaque to the memory of Howard Cecil Fulford, the ship's surgeon, was erected in the chapel by his fellow students at Trinity College (University of Melbourne). In the Parish Church of St Wilfrid, Bognor Regis, England, is a plaque: "The church gates were given in memory of Harris Archibald Gibbs who was drowned at sea in the SS Waratah". In the main church in Aberystwyth, Wales, is a plate "in happy memory of John Purton Morgan, 3rd Officer SS Waratah lost at sea 1909". A memorial in Higher Cemetery, Exeter, Devon, commemorates Thomas Newman "drowned in SS Waratah 27th July 1909". A centenary plaque was unveiled at the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum, Victoria, Australia, on 27 July 2009. Cultural impact The story of the Waratah, with the loss of 211 people, has often been compared to that of which sank three years later, with the loss of over 1,500 people. As such the Waratah has been referred to variously as the "Titanic of the southern seas" or the "Titanic of the south" or alternatively "Australia's Titanic". See also List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea References Notes Bibliography Further reading "The Loss of the Waratah", The Times, 23 February 1911 p. 24 Esther Addley, "Sea yields our Titanic's Resting Place", The Weekend Australian, 17 July 1999 Sue Blane, "The Week in Quotes", Financial Times, 6 May 2004 Alan Laing, "Shipwreck expert abandons hunt for Clyde liner", The Herald, 4 May 2004 Tom Martin, "Almost a century after she vanished, scientists could now be on the verge of solving riddle of SS Waratah'''s last voyage", Sunday Express, 25 April 2004 Geoffrey Jenkins' Scend of the Sea'' (Collins, 1971) is a novel based on