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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.

1918  
  Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
   
  14.06.1918 - Arrived Sydney.
   
   
   
  31.06.1918 - Arrived Adelaide. C McDonald Master.
   
  05.07.1918 - Sailed Calcutta for Sydney via Singapore, Adelaide and Melbourne.
   
? 14.07.1918 - Arrived Singapore.
   
  01.08.1918 - Sailed Adelaide.
   
  17.08.1918 - Sailed Sydney for Newcastle.
   
  23.08.1918 - Passed Cape Moreton lighthouse at 09:00 sailing north for Singapore.
   
   
   
  14.09.1918 - Arrived Sydney from Singapore.
   
 

24.09.1918 - Sailed Sydney for Melbourne. Captain Smith, Master. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 5 ca breakfast delight, 10 cs hams, 72 cs bacon, , 3OO cs groceries, 1 bx mission goods, 100 cs cornflour., 81 cs custard powder, 20 cs macedoine, 230 cs starch, 60 cs lemon, orange and citron peel, 580 cs pickles, 168 cs hams and bacon, 8 tanks jelly crystals, 2 cs samples, 3 cs eucal oil, 3 cs jelly crystals, 51 cs patent groats, 175 cs laundrena, 100 cs marmalade, 10 cs oatmeal, 352 cs cornflour, 4 csks vinegar, 41 cs tnd vegetables, 11 cs tnd fruits, 16 cs barley, 1 cs gelatine, 1 cs red currant jelly, 5 ca lime juice, 5 cs lemon squash, 2 cs caramels, 1 cs ginger, 2 cs mustard, 10 cs tnd puddings, 8 cs sauce, 21 cs biscuits, 111 cs jam, 300 cs wine, 20 scks pearl barley, 18 csks assorted peel, 50 cs pickles, 3024 cs jam,76 cs sauce, 4 cs leather belting, 5 cs mnf of rubber, 15 cs cereals,2 ca olives, 25 cs barley, 80 cs oatmeal, 16 cs honey, 5 cs tnd puddings, 5 cs nickel salts, 4 cs sulphate copper salts, 320 pkgs zinc white, 1 pcl papers, 530 cs wine, 6 Ocs peel, 18 csks peel, 3 cs bacon, 3 cs hams, 25 cs biscuits, 1 cs samples, 4 cs medicated jubes, 28,171 bars copper, 13 cs lead piping, 25 cs tnd meats, 187 cs hams, 451 cs bacon, 16,419 cs cnd meats, 2 cs rennet, 553 bars copper, 19 pkgs leather, 1 cs seeds, 20 cs sauce, 65 cs wine, 125 cs jam, 1 cs samples, 100 cs pickles, 25cs tnd meats, 100 cs cornflour.

For Bombay: 2400 cs tnd meats , 260 cs soup tablets, 1277 cs cond milk, 6250 cs corned beef, 190 cs bacon, 50 cs
lard, 87 cs provisions.

For Simla: 3 crts 3 cs biscuits, 3 cs starch, 3 cs rolled oats, 3 cs cornflour, 6 cs hams and bacon.

For Mussorie: 4 ca rolled oats, 1 tank jelly crystals, 1 cs essences, 1 cs meat pasties, 10 cs pickles, 50 cs beer.

For Roorkee: 6 cs pickles, 1 cs pea sausages, 1 cs cornflour, 2 cs starch.

For Chittagong: 2 cs hams and bacon, 2 csks vinegar.

For Lahore:2 cs tnd vegetables, 2 csks vinegar, 15 cs hams,5 cs cornflour, 4 cs bacon.

For London: 3131 bars copper.

   
  05.10.1918 - Sailed Newcastle after taking in bunkers.
   
  18.11.1918 - Sailed Calcutta.
   
  27.11.1918 - Sailed Singapore for Melbourne via Newcastle.
   
  13.12.1918 - Arrived Melbourne. Cargo discharged at Victoria Dock:

1600 tons Eastern Produce.

   
  20.12.1918 - Sailed Melbourne for Sydney.
   
  23.12.1918 - Arrived Sydney.
   
 

29.12.1918 - Sailed Sydney for Newcastle. C McDonald Master. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 322 bars copper (10 tons).

   
  29.12.1918 - Arrived Newcastle from Sydney.
   

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