SS Wollongbar (1922)
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History | |
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Name: | Wollongbar |
Owner: | North Coast Steam Navigation Company |
Builder: | Lithgows, Port Glasgow |
Yard number: | 746 |
Launched: | 1922 |
Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk on 29 April 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 2,240 gross tons |
Length: | 285.1 ft (86.9 m)[1] |
Beam: | 42.1 ft (12.8 m) |
Draught: | 23.9 ft (7.3 m) |
Propulsion: | Triple expansion engine |
Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Wollongbar was a 2,239 ton passenger steamship built by the Lithgows, Port Glasgow in 1922 for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, as a replacement for SS Wollongbar (1911) which was wrecked in 1921.[2]
Fate
She was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-180 off Crescent Head, New South Wales while in a convoy on 29 April 1943. When she sank, thirty two crew members died and five of her crew waited until they were rescued.
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- New South Wales articles missing geocoordinate data
- 1922 ships
- Clyde-built ships
- 1943 in Australia
- Shipwrecks of the Mid North Coast Region
- Ships sunk by Japanese submarines
- Maritime incidents in April 1943
- 1901 – World War I ships of Australia
- World War II merchant ships of Australia
- Iron and steel steamships of Australia
- Merchant ships of Australia