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SS Port Lyttleton

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History
Name SS Port Lyttleton
Builder/Built 1902
Type Passenger / cargo ship
Displacement 6,444 tons
Speed 12 knots


Remarks

Owned by the Commonwealth & Dominion Line, London. Previously known as the SS Niwaru, before being requisitioned in 1916 as a troop ship and renamed SS Port Lyttleton.

Scrapped in Italy in 1924 following a grounding off Tasmania.

List of soldiers carried

Frederick Fancote
Charles Richard Irvine MM & Bar