ss. JANUS (Currie Line Livery)

Palmers Jarrow , UK

Transferred to B.I. 1913

Sunk as breakwater 1933

Engaged in the Indian coastal trade

13.04.1911 - Arrived Sydney, berthed at No 8 jetty Darling Harbour. Loaded:

For Penang: 25 cs cnd. fruits.

For Singapore: 729 bgs ore.

06.05.1911 - Sailed Newcastle for Penang via Melbourne, Loaded:

5000 tons coal.

For Port Swettenham: 45 tons flour, 20 cs dripping, 25 cs roofing composition

For Calcutta: 124 cs cnd fruits, 5 cs jam, 50 cs biscuits, 4 cs cakes, 8 cs groceries

For Chittagong: 4 cs biscuits and cakes.

For Bangkok: 2 cs lard, 2 cs butter, 9 cs cnd fruits

For Rangoon: 18 cs butter, 55 cs biscuits, 13 tons flour

For Samarang: 100 cs ceiling composition, 56 tons flour, 22 cs td butter, 20, cs pears, 20 cs apples

For Penang: 114 bls fodder, 35 cs butter,160 coils wire, 6 cs machinery, 8 cs -leather, 50 cs apples, 27 cs cordails 30 crts onions, 1 cs saddlery

For Sourabaya: 147 cs butter, 30 cs biscuits, 7 cs flour

For Batavia: 82 cs butter

For Singapore: 16 cs forest devils, 411 tons flour, 386 bgs 240 bls chaff, 14 cs honey, 267 cs butter, 5 pkgs machinery, 2 cs cheese, 100 cs soap, 217 cs apples, 23 cs pears, 1 ton tallow, 45 cs meats, 20 cs dripping, 7 cs cordials, 75 bgs bran, 50 crts onions, 24 kegs beef, 4 cs Jam, 2 crts fowls, 275 bgs ore, 43 cs biscuits, 43 cs cakes.

10.05.1912 - Sailed Melbourne,

26.08.1911 - Janus took up an anchorage in Double Bay.

25.09.1911 - Sailed Sydney for Melbourne. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 15,281 pcs timber, 2 cs pictures, 109 bgs chaff, 24 bls hay; 25 bgs bran, 9 bls straw.

27.09.1911 - Arrived Melbourne from Sydney. Loaded:

For Madras: 370 bls chaff, 59 bgs oats, 2 cs leather, 4 cs billiard goods, 19 bdls timber,3 pkgs jacks, 2 tons tallow, 50 cs fruits, 12 cs biscuits, 7 cs cakes, 1 cs vegetables, 6 cs honey, 5 tons flour, 107 horses, 29 cows, 1 crt fowls, 12 bgs bran, 727 bgs oats, 2 cs butter, 3 cs cheese, 9 pkgs m'dise.

For Bombay: 1 pkg leather, 50 cs preserves, 7 cs m'dise, 25 cs cnd. fruits, 16 cs cakes, 25 bls chaff. 15 bgs oats, 10 cs meats, 1 cs show-cards.

For Karachi: 2 cs biscuits, 4 cs fruits, 2 cases cards, 2 cs jams.

For Calcutta: 7 bls straw, 8 bls hay, 48 bls fodder, 4 goats, 1392 pcs timber, 34 pkgs m'dise, 4 cyls ammonia,

49 drms paint, 6 bdls shafts, 20 rams, 59 horses, 5 cows, 60 tons fodder.

For Bombay: 10 tons tallow.

03.10.1911 - Sailed Sydney for Brisbane.

For Calcutta: 179 horses 2 crts fowls, 1 ton mdise

07.10.1911 - Sailed Brisbane,

08.10.1911 - Arrived Gladstone, C McDonald Master. loaded:

77 horses.

13.10.1911 - Passed Goode Island lighthouse sailing west.