ss. JANUS (Currie Line Livery)

Palmers Jarrow , UK

Transferred to B.I. 1913

Sunk as breakwater 1933

18.01.1912 - Sailed Sydney for Newcastle. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 370 bars copper, 1 cs m'dise, 2 tons tallow, 4 pkgs leather, 14 pkgs seed, 355,444 ft timber.

For Bangkok: 6 cyls ammonia.

For Madras: 1 cs missionary goods.

For Singapore: 2,500 tons coal.

23.01.1912 - Sailed Newcastle for Sydney.

25.01.1912 - Sailed Sydney for Melbourne, Loaded:

For Singapore: the racing mare "Crown Derby" (Valued at 1000 Guineas), 2 pkgs merchandise.

For Bombay: 20 tons of tallow.

For Madras: 1 pkg of oilcake.

For Calcutta: 71,048 ft of timber, 689 sleepers, 2 boxes copper, 115 horses, 89 bales of chaff, 66 bales of hay, 10 bags of bran, 3,960 bars of lead.

28.01.1912 - Passed Wilsons Promontory at 05:00 sailing west.

For Singapore: 600 bgs chaff, 32 cs jam, 135 bgs oats, 50 bgs bran, 150 bls comp chaff, 35 cs butter, 400 cs soap, 118 bls hay, 151 cs apples, 1 coil rope, 6 tons chaff, 5 tons tallow, 25 cs cordials, 55 cows, 56 horses, 53 cs cakes, 34 cs biscuits, 141 tons flour, 5 cs dripping, 2 cs fruits, 194 pkgs machinery, 210 bls straw, 15 iron pipes, 1 bg bolts

For Rangoon: 5 cs euc oil, 22 cs butter, 640 bls chaff, 40 cs fruits, 24 cs jams, 16 cs cordials, 60 cs soap, 85 cs biscuits, 15 cs cakes, 10 cs cnd fruits, 10 cs flour.

For Madras: 60 bxs soap, 512 bls chaff, 188 bgs oats, 50 horses, 1 bull, 1 jinker, 2 cs jam, 36 cs biscuits, 13 cs cakes, 52 cs cnd fruits, 5 cs vegetables, 2 cs honey, 2 cs puddings, 2 tons flour, 300 bgs chaff, 3 tons tallow, 1 pkg leather.

For Calcutta: 875 bls wool, 8 bls leather, 2 cs butter,- 5 cs salvatis, 1 ton tallow, 114 cs biscuits, 20 cs cakes, 43 cs jams, 229 cs cnd fruits, 2 cs honey, 7 cs machinery, 1 cow, 12 cs birds, 15 lengths tube, 4 bls corn sacks, 2 cs m'dise

For Penang: 80 bgs chaff, 65 bls hay, 230 bgs oats. 162 bls fodder, 50 bgs bran, 6 cs butter, 15 cs dripping, 6cs cordials.

For Jesselton: 4 tons flour, 3 cs butter, 1 cs dripping, 25 cs roofing compo.

For Bangkok: 3 cs tnd butter.

For Medan : 1 cs fruit, 9 cs jam

For Bombay: 15 tons tallow

31.01.1912 - Sailed Melbourne.

24.02.1912 - Sailed Singapore For Madras and Calcutta.

10.04.1912 - Sailed Colombo for Fremantle.

For Calcutta: 10 tons tallow, 87 bls chaff, 6 bls hay, 40 bgs bran, 1 cs bicycle, 1 cs effects

For Madras: 18 cs metals

For Bombay: 37 cks tallow (37 tons)

16.05.1912 - Sailed Sydney

18.05.1912 - Arrived Newcastle from Sydney, C McDonald Master.Loaded:

For Madras: 3,000 tons coal (2,500 tons bunkers), 2 horses.

25.05.1912 - Sailed Sydney for Melbourne, C McDonald Master. Loaded:

For Colombo - 1 bag linseed.

For Calcutta - 200 cs meats, 99 horses, 5 cows, 5 cs plants, 1 cs merchandise.

28.05.1912 - Arrived Melbourne from Sydney. Loaded:

racehorse "Gunboat" for India.

02.09.1912 - Arrived at Adelaide. Cargo included the following for the Adelaide Zoo:

one pair of porcupines, one pair of sloth bears, one Himalaya bear, two morning cranes, two adjutants (cranes), four bamboo partridges, two pairs of flamingoes, one hog deer, one axis deer, a pair of civet cats and 10 fancy ducks.

13.09.1912 - Arrived Sydney, C McDonald Master. Cargo included the following for the Sydney Zoo:

a humped-back bull from the Mooltau district of India, two pairs of flamingoes, a pair of cranes and a spotted deer. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 5912 bars lead, 3 cs m'dise, 5 tons tallow, 60 bgs bran, 6 bls straw

20.09.1912 - Sailed Sydney for Newcastle.

03.10.1912 - Sailed Sydney for Newcastle. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 3 cs stout, 1 cs whisky, 3 cs mission goods, 1 bg seed, 1 bl leather, 6 cylinders ammonia, 250 cs
meats, 6 cs m'dise, 37 horses, 2 cows.

09.10.1912 - Arrived Gladstone. loaded:

For Calcutta: 86 horses