Flashback in Maritime History: SS Warrimoo - A Victorian case of peculiar time travel

records, and discover that the ship’s time-defying achievement wasn’t fully reported until a Canadian newspaper article was published in 1942, by which time the SS Warrimoo rested firmly upon the seabed.

Scepticism over any historical claim would certainly build when four decades pass before a claim comes forward. Then there’s the missing documentation. The account could well be true, but as copies of the ship’s log and accounts from other Warrimoo occupants – other than Captain Phillips – are not available, the only claim we have comes from the 1942 Canadian article.

As such, the ship’s infamous achievement remains open to question. Still – even if the ship’s story is purely speculative or hypothetical, it’s a fascinating slice of shipping heritage nonetheless. The imagination runs wild, and it's surely only a matter of time before the occasion becomes a Sci-fi plot for Hollywood to plunder.