<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" class="extiw" title="en:Australia">Australian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Ship" class="extiw" title="en:Hospital Ship">Hospital Ship</a> <i><b>Centaur</b></i> was sunk during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" class="extiw" title="en:World War II">World War II</a> at 4.10am on 14 May 1943 off <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradbroke_Island" class="extiw" title="en:Stradbroke Island">Stradbroke Island</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland" class="extiw" title="en:Queensland">Queensland</a>, by a torpedo from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" class="extiw" title="en:Imperial Japanese Navy">Japanese Navy</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/submarine" class="extiw" title="en:submarine">submarine</a> I-177. The ship sank within 3 minutes. 
The Centaur memorial is at Point Danger, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolangatta,_Queensland" class="extiw" title="en:Coolangatta, Queensland">Coolangatta</a>.
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