SS Carpentaria
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| Name | SS Carpentaria |
| Owner | British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd of Calcutta. |
| Launched | 1901 |
| Completed | 1904 |
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| Type | Passenger / cargo |
| Tonnage | 5,766 tons |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.56 km/h) |
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Left London on 8 May 1913 for Port Said, Suez, Colombo, Thursday Island, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Maryborough, Moreton Bay, Brisbane where she arrived on 24 July 1913). Her return journey began in Brisbane on 2 Aug 1913, returning to London, via Batavia, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Genoa, and Liverpool, arriving in London on 24 Oct 1913.
Owned by the British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd of Calcutta. She is what is known as a shelter-deck steamer, that is, with a full sweep of decking running right fore and aft. She possessed only limited passenger accommodation, and still less superstructure. Used in the final stages of WW1 to return soldiers to Australia.
Soldiers carried
England to Fremantle 20 August - 28 September 1918
- John Thomas Buckland
- Aubrey Cecil Dawson
- Samuel Thomas Lowth
- Thomas Alfred Osborne
- Aubrey Walter (Swazz) Mead
Sydney to Fremantle 7 - ? November 1918
Ship was recalled, but with cargo aboard we might assume that she continued to England as the men transferred at some point to SS Riverina, a coastal ship primarily operating out of Fremantle. They arrived back in Sydney aboard the Riverina on 28 Nov 1918.