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ss. JANUS (B.I. Livery)

 

 


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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.

1919  
 

15.01.1919 - Sailed Newcastle. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 5340 tons coal, 181 bars silver, 250 horses, 2 cs missionary goods

   
  04.02.1919 - Arrived Singapore, C. McDonald Master.
   
  15.04.1919 - Arrived Adelaide, The vessel had on board 270 men of the wireless signalling branch who had been engaged in Mesopotamia during the 1st world war.
   
   
  17.04.1919 - Arrived Melbourne.
   
  22.04.1919 - Arrived Sydney.
   
 

08.05.1919 - Sailed Newcastle for Singapore. Loaded:

For Singapore: 6200 tons coal.

   
 

06.06.1919 - Sailed Singapore for Rangoon.

   
  05.07.1919 - Sailed Calcutta, C McDonald Master.
   
  14.07.1919 - Arrived Singapore.
   
   
  01.08.1919 - Arrived Adelaide. Cargo discharged:

800 tons jute goods.

   
  10.08.1919 - Arrived Sydney.
   
  21.08.1919 - Sailed Newcastle for Singapore.Loaded:

For Singapore: 6000 tons coal.

   
   
   
   
  Spent some time on the Calcutta/Far East service.
   
   
   

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