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Official Number Date Builder Tonnage L B D Fate
120765 1910

Palmers Jarrow , UK

4824 400.4 53.6 27.5

Transferred to B.I. 1913

Sunk as breakwater 1933

Capt Colin McDonald - Master 1910 to 1921

Passenger/cargo steamship built for Archibald Currie & Co's Australian and Indian Line, Melbourne in 1910. Employed on the Melbourne - Calcutta run she carried Australian Brumbies north and Indian produce and exotic animals on the southern run.

1915

15.01.1915 - On completion of repairs, Sailed Sydney for Newcastle. C McDonald Master.

   
 

16.01.1915 - Arrived Newcastle from Sydney. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 1400 tons coal.

   
  20.01.1915 - Sailed Newcastle for Calcutta via Melbourne.
   
  20.01.1915 - Passed North Head lighthouse at 19:00 sailing south.
   
  21.01.1915 - Passed Jervis Bay lighthouse at 02:25 sailing south.
   
 

??.01.1915 - Arrived Melbourne. Loaded:

For Chitttagong: 6 cs canned fruit, 10 cs biscuits

For Rangoon: 34 cs tnd fruits

For Madras: 1 cs leather, 12 cks tallow (2 1/2 tons), 22 cs canned fruits, 15 cs cakes, 4 cs biscuits.

For Calcutta: 4 bls leather, 1 crte fruits, 1 bg bonedust. 7 bdls 5 pkgs shafts, 447 horses, 1 cow. 208 bgs chaff, 18 cs biscuits, 5 cs cnd fruits, 1 bx 1 cs merchandise.


Also 5616 bgs chaff, 949 bgs bran for use on voyage.

   
  ??.01.1914 - Sailed Melbourne for Calcutta via Adelaide
   
  02.03.1915 - Sailed Calcutta.
   
  18.03.1915 - Arrived Fremantle from Calcutta. C McDonald Master.
   
  18.03.1915 - Sailed Fremantle for Adelaide. C McDonald Master.
   
  24.03.1915 - Arrived Adelaide. Discharged 700 tons of "Eastern produce " for this port.
   
  25.03.1915 - Sailed Adelaide for Melbourne.
   
  06.04.1915 - Arrived Sydney from Melbourne.
   
  12.04.1915 - Sailed Sydney for Newcastle.
 

 

  12.04.1915 - Arrived Newcastle from Sydney.
   
  16.04.1915 - Sailed Newcastle for Marseilles via Melbourne.
   
  19.04.1915 - Passed Wilsons Promontory lighthouse at 02:00 sailing west.
   
 

19.04.1915 - Arrived Melbourne from Newcastle. Loaded:

For Marseilles: 147 horses, 485 tons fodder

   
  22.04.1915 - Sailed Melbourne for Marseilles. C McDonald Master.
   
  24.04.1915 - Arrived Sydney from Melbourne.
   
  Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport 1915-1916 .
   
  06.06.1915 - 07:30 Sailed Malta for Port Said.
   
  10.06.1915 - Arrived Port Said from Malta
   
  25.10.1915 - Arrived at Suez. C McDonald Master.
   
  11.11.1915 - Embarked 4th cavalry (Indian Army) in France
   
  18.11.1915 - Disembarked 4th cavalry (Indian Army) at Alexandria, Egypt.
   
  23.11.1915 - Embarked 4th cavalry (Indian Army) at Alexandria, Egypt.
   
  11.12.1915 - Disembarked 4th cavalry (Indian Army) at Basra, Mesopotamia.
   
   

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