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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12.01.1921 - Arrived Fremantle. Unloaded 1050 tons of gunny sacks for this port. |
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14.01.1921 - Sailed Fremantle. |
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20.01.1921 - Arrived Adelaide from Fremantle. Unloaded 550 tons of gunny sacks for this port. |
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24.01.1921 - Arrived Melbourne, C McDonald Master. |
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28.01.1921 - Sailed Melbourne. Loaded:
For Calcutta: 62 blis wool, 15 cs biscuits, 27 cs cnd fruits, 5 cs honey, 8 cs cakes, 2 bls leather, 101 cs euc. oil, 16
cs lanollne, 1 pkge merchandise, 14 cs phenyle, 1 cs drugs, 2 cs bath salts, 3 csconfectionery, 2 cs disinfectant, 1 cs fruits, 2 cs jams, 5S cs phenyle, 175 csks congroleum, 10 cs euc. oil, 7 cs Stockholm tar, 7 cs pitch, 1 cs knjeput oil, 1410 bls comp chaff, 100 bls comp fodder, 1 cs soap.
For Singapore: 104 cs phenyle and disinfectant,
10 cs soft soap, 1 cs polish, 3 cs euc. oil.
For Rangoon: 32 crts biscuits, 94 cs phenyle and disinfectant, 1 cs euc. oil, 47 csks congroleum. |
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31.01.1921 - Arrived Sydney from Melbourne. |
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04.02.1921 - Sailed Sydney for Singapore via Brisbane, C McDonald Master . |
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06.02.1921 - Arrived Brisbane from Sydney . Loaded:
For Singapore: 5,552 tons coal. |
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13.02.1921 - Sailed Brisbane. |
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13.02.1921 - Passed Cape Moreton lighthouse at 19:30 sailing north. |
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05.04.1921 - Sailed Calcutta for Australia via Singapore. |
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16.04.1921 - Sailed Singapore. |
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25.04.1921 - Arrived Fremantle. |
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27.04.1921 - Sailed Fremantle for Adelaide. |
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02.05.1921 - Arrived Adelaide. Unloaded 600 tons of gunny sacks for this port. |
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06.05.1921 - Arrived Melbourne. |
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13.05.1921 - Arrived Sydney. Loaded:
For Rangoon: 1 horse, 20 tons coke, 1 cs films, 1 cs samples. |
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20.05.1921 - Sailed Sydney for Rangoon via Newcastle. |
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02.06.1921 - Sailed Newcastle. Loaded:
For Rangoon: 6,000 tons coal. |
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| 1921 |
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate , Thursday 9 June 1921, page 4
Captain Colin McDonald of the British-India SN Company's steamer Janus, retired from the sea priror to the steamer's departure from Newcastle a few days ago on her return to India. Captain McDonald was previously with
Messrs. Archibald Currie for many years and had command of most of the steamers of that line. He brought the Janus out from the Tyne as a new vessel about eleven, years ago. When the Currie Line was bought by the British-India S.N. Company, Captain McDonald went over with the Janus. He still holds a posltion with the British-India SN Company. |
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| 1926 |
??.05.1926: Had a minor outbreak of fire on board. |
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13.10.1926 - On route from Calcutta to Adelaide, in heavy seas, fire was discovered in the kapok cargo of #3 hold when the vessel was 60 miles west of Neptune Islands. Six hose lines were deployed. and blazing material was thrown into the sea through the bulkhead cargo doors. After a seven hour battle the blaze was extinguished but not before considerable damage had been done to the ship. |
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14.10.1926 - Arrived Adelaide. |
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| 1928 |
09.01.1928 - Fire broke out in her No.3 shelter deck, while alongside in Calcutta. |
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??.07.1928 - Minor fire onboard. |
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| 1932 |
Fire caused structural damage which was uneconomic to repair |
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| 1932 |
19.11.1932 - Sold to Vizagapatam Port Trust for £3,000 |
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| 1933 |
07.01.1933 - Scuttled as part of a breakwater at Vizagapatam, India in the Bay of Bengal. |
