The SS Waratah was a passenger and cargo steamship built in 1908 for the Blue Anchor Line, a British shipping company operating between the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia between 1870 and 1910. On only her second voyage, on a leg of the journey from Durban to Cape Town in the summer of 1909, this enormous ship of 9,339 tons, with the capacity to carry over 1000 passengers, simply vanished. Locating the wreck has defied the efforts of numerous explorers, archaeologists, historians and adventurers ever since. To find out more about this ship, and to look at her plans and the written records of her design, construction and reports into her loss, Dr Sam Willis visited the archives of the Lloyds Register Foundation and spoke with Max Wilson.

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