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.
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Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport. |
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03.02.1916 - Sailed Colombo for Newcastle. |
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23.02.1916 - Passed Wilsons Promontory lighthouse at 10:00 sailing east. |
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24.02.1916 - Passed Green Cape lighthouse at 06:00 sailing north. |
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25.02.1916 - Arrived Newcastle from Colombo (loaded bunker coal). C McDonald Master. |
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01.03.1916 - Sailed Newcastle for Brisbane. |
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02.03.1916 - Passed South Solitary lighthouse 14:30. |
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03.03.1916 - Arrived Brisbane from Newcastle. C McDonald Master. |
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04.03.1916 - Sailed Brisbane for Calcutta via Gladstone. |
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25.04.1919 - Arrived Melbourne. Loaded:
For Calcutta: 100 cs apples (consigned by C. McDonald), 178 cs jams, 80 cs biscuits, 81 cs wine, 2 cs brandy, 160 cs provisions, 222 bls wool, 64 horses.
For Bombay: 260 cs provisions, 818 bls comp. fodder, 6 cs dripping, 3 cs books, 6 cs tyre composition, 82 cs jams.
Also 6195 bags chaff, 288 bls hay, 8 bls straw, 724 bgs bran for use on the voyage. |
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??.05.1916 - Sailed Melbourne. |
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05.05.1916 - Sailed Newcastle. Loaded:
( bunkers 952 tons), 538 horses. |
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12.05.1916 - Arrived Adelaide. C McDonald Master. Loaded:
For Calcutta: 116 horses, 80 tons chaff fodder (stores). |
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13.05.1916 - Sailed Adelaide. |
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??.07.1916 - Sailed Sydney. Loaded:
For Madras: 6 pipes tallow
For Calcutta: 9866 bars lead, 12 tons bran.
For use on voyage: 42 tons bran
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03.12.1916 - Sailed Calcutta for Australian ports via Rangoon and Singapore. |
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15.12.1916 - Arrived Singapore. |
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17.12.1916 - Sailed Singapore for fremantle. |
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27.12.1916 - Arrived Fremantle with 600 tons of cargo for this port. |
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28.12.1916 - Sailed Fremantle for Adelaide. |
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