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History
Name HMAT A36 Boonah
Builder/Built 1911 Flensburger Schiffsbau Ges., Flensburgh
Type Steamship cargo (refrigerated single screw)
Displacement 5,926 tons
Speed 12.5 knots


Remarks

Built for the Deutsche - Australische Line and named Melbourne. Seized by the Australian Government at Sydney in 1914, and renamed Boonah. Manned by Australian Officers and crew, and transferred to the Commonwealth Government Line post hostilities.

In 1925 she was renamed Witram by new owners the North German Lloyd Line , Bremen. In 1937 renamed Buenos Aires before being torpedoed in 1940 and sunk by the HMS Narwhal between Denmark and Sweden.


List of soldiers carried

William Henry Gauthern