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Official Number Date Builder Tonnage L B D Fate
95956 1889

Palmers Jarrow, UK

2792 325 40.4 24

Sold 1905

Wrecked 1907

Capt Colin McDonald - Master 1897 - 1899

The third of Currie's steamers was built by Palmers & Co., in 1889.

   
1898 06.01.1898 - Arrived Sydney, C McDonald Master.
   
  07.01.1898 - Sailed Sydney for Newcastle, C McDonald Master.
   
  15.01.1898 - Arrived Melbourne from Sydney, C McDonald Master.
   
 

18.01.1898 - Sailed Melbourne for Calcutta via Colombo and Wallaroo, C McDonald Master. Loaded:

40 pkgs tallow, 4 bls leather, 125 horses, 7 pkgs butter, 24 cs brandy, 2 cows, 50 tons chaff, 2 cs eucalyptus oil, 20 tons bran, 3 cs preserved meats, 40 bls forage, 217 pkgs jams and fruits, 11 cs preserves, 232 cs biscuits, 33 pkgs four, 127 cs canned fruits, 4 drums disinfectant 2 pkgs merchandise.

   
  24.01.1898 - Sailed Wallaroo for Calcutta.
   
  05.04.1898 - Sailed Calcutta, C McDonald Master.
   
  08.04.1898 - Sailed Sandheads for Singapore,C McDonald Master.
   
  19.04.1898 - Sailed Singapore, C McDonald Master.
   
  07.05.1898 - Arrived Adelaide.
   
  10.05.1898 - Sailed Adelaide for Melbourne
   
  12.05.1898 - Arrived Melbourne, C McDonald Master.
   
  14.05.1898 - Sailed Melbourne for sydney, C McDonald Master.
   
  17.05.1898 - Arrived Sydney, C McDonald Master.
   
  19.05.1898 -Sailed Sydney for Newcastle, C McDonald Master. Passengers: - Mrs McDonald and Child for Melbourne.
   
  20.05.1898 - Arrived Newcastle from Sydney, C McDonald Master.
   
  21.05.1898 - Sailed Newcastle for Melbourne, C McDonald Master.
   
  25.05.1898 - Arrived Melbourne from Newcastle, C McDonald Master.
   
  28.05.1898 - Sailed Melbourne for Colombo, Madras and Calcutta, C McDonald Master.
   
  07.08.1898 - Sailed Calcutta, C McDonald Master.
   
  01.09.1898 - Arrived Albany, C McDonald Master.
   
 

06.09.1898 - Arrived Adelaide, C McDonald Master. Unloaded:

350 tons Eastern produce.
   
  07.09.1898 - Sailed Adelaide for Melbourne, C McDonald Master.
   
 

09.09.1898 - Arrived Melbourne, C McDonald Master. Unloaded:

78 bls cotton, 47 bags rape seed, 1 cs cigars 1 cs chutney, 5 bls hessian cloth 81 bags linseed, 50 bgs linseed oil cake, 467 cs 100 hf-cs castor oil, 4 chts buttonlac, 423 drums linseed oil, 1,721 bls gunnies.

   
  15.09.1898 - Arrived Sydney, C McDonald Master.
   
  22.09.1898 - Arrived Melbourne from Newcastle, C McDonald Master.
   
   
   
  07.10.1898 - Sailed Melbourne for Colombo via Newcastle, C McDonald Master.
   
   
   
   
   
  30.11.1898 - Sailed Calcutta, C McDonald Master.
   
  23.12.1898 - Arrived Adelaide, C McDonald Master.
   
  23.12.1898 - Sailed Adelaide, C McDonald Master.
   
   
   
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