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===Buna, Papua New Guinea to Townsville 12 - 18 Mar 1944=== | ===Buna, Papua New Guinea to Townsville 12 - 18 Mar 1944=== |
Revision as of 01:47, 3 December 2019
Contents
- 1 Remarks
- 2 Soldiers carried
- 2.1 Milne Bay to Sydney 6 - 14 December 1942
- 2.2 Sydney to Townsville 12 - 15 May 1943
- 2.3 Buna, Papua New Guinea to Bowen, Queensland 20 - 27 Feb 1944
- 2.4 Buna, Papua New Guinea to Townsville 12 - 18 Mar 1944
- 2.5 Fremantle to Sydney 16 - 26 June 1944
- 2.6 Sydney to Aitape, New Guinea 5 - 13 November 1944
- 2.7 Brisbane to Jacquinot Bay, New Britain 19 - 24 February 1945
- 2.8 Townsville to Jacquinot Bay, New Britain 10 - 17 March 1945
- 2.9 Toro Kina, Bouganville to Townsville 11 - 16 December 1945
Remarks
Built for McIllwraith, McEacharn Ltd of Melbourne for the Sydney to Western Australia passenger run. Requisitioned as a troopship in May 1918 and refitted at Sydney for her owners in 1919-1920.
She returned to passenger service in March 1920. She operated in Queensland and Western Australia coastal services and in cruising between 1932-1939 and in Feb.1942 was again converted to a troopship. Returned to her owners in 1946, she was sold to Goulandris Bros of Greece in July.
Operated by them, in 1949 she was renamed SS Columbia and operated on the Bremen - Montreal service before being retired from service in June 1950. She was laid up at Piraeus, Greece in March 1958 and scrapped at Nagasaki in 1959.
Soldiers carried
Milne Bay to Sydney 6 - 14 December 1942
Sydney to Townsville 12 - 15 May 1943
Buna, Papua New Guinea to Bowen, Queensland 20 - 27 Feb 1944
- Eric William Taylor
- George Charles Owens embarked in Milne Bay