MV Koolinda
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 Green Collection – State of Victoria | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | MV Koolinda |
| Owner | Government of Western Australia.. |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Glasgow |
| Yard number | 728 |
| Launched | 26 Aug 1926 |
| Completed | 23 Dec 1926 |
| In service | 1927 |
| Out of service | 1959 |
| Fate | scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 4,372 tons |
| Length | 330 ft (100.69m) |
| Beam | 50 ft (15.24m) |
| Depth | 28 ft 6 in (8.69m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.78 km/h) |
Contents
Remarks
Built for the Western Australian State Shipping Service used mainly for freight and passengers on the Western Australian coast.
Following the clash between the German Kormoran and the HMAS Sydney, it was the Koolinda that recovered German sailors from a lifeboat and delivered them to Geraldton. Fitted early in the war with a variety of defensive weapons, she brought some two hundred and sixty evacuees out of Darwin in December 1941, to Fremantle.
In 1959 she was renamed Kimberley before being sold to Hong Kong where she arrived on 5 Dec 1949 for scrapping.