I'm glad to state that about six years of investigation into the collision between the outbound TAHITI and the Sydney ferry GREYCLIFFE in 1927 has resulted in "GREYCLIFFE Stolen Lives".

Brew has seemingly tracked down every newspaper article and every official report - and there were several - often contradictory. He has also tracked down the families of those involved and been given access to material and family memories that have long been bottled up. He also discovered who he thought was the only living survivor. Subsequent publication and publicity brought forth more survivors and even more material, naturally.

Forty people died when TAHITI chopped through the ferry. Brew gives details of all of them and of the survivors. He tracks the survivors to their passing from the scene of life and summarizes their lives - post GREYCLIFFE. He tells of those aboard TAHITI and of those involved aboard that ship, and he comes to grips with opinions of the many witnesses, professional and otherwise.

GREYCLIFFE is an excellent piece of scholarship - the more so, because much of the work was done from the author's workplace in Switzerland!

GREYCLIFFE is sensibly presented in three basic sections. The drama and tragedy is described. Following this are chapters covering each of the various enquiries with conversational quotes and summaries, followed by the findings.

The later loss of TAHITI herself, while not a part of the GREYCLIFFE drama, is included to round off the tale. The second half of the book provides comprehensive indices, notes and references, crew and victim name lists and more, much more.