1942 (Jan) Convoy MS2
Photo from the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
Antilochus (Blue Funnel Line) sln photo ut
twscs 9,011gt 1906 Newcastle Digital Order No.
1942 (Jan) Convoy MS3 a636166
1948 scrapped nmm 2 photos
aq No. G3553
(1942-1943 possibly
Liverpool)
uw No. P17087
(1920-1939)
Photo fro the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
Charon - See Blue Funnel Line (BF2)
1942 (Jan) Convoy MS3
Postcard from the author's collection
Duntroon (Melbourne Steamship Co.) sln album 6 photos (including
twscm 10,346gt 1935 Newcastle 3 aerial, i art and 1 photo
(Built for Australian coastal postcard, peace time livery)
passenger trade) Digital Order No. a637282
1939 taken over for conversion slq photo (in harbour, peace
to an Armed Merchant Cruiser time livery)
but was rejected and returned Image No. 130488
to commercial service slv 2 photos uw (peace time
1942 (Feb) troopship livery)
1942 (Feb) Convoy MS5 Image No.gr001195
1942-1943 carried troops to New Image No. b37572
Guinea slv photo art colour postcard
1943 (Nov) involved in a collision (peace time livery)
with a US destroyer (USS Perkins) Image No. pc002106
in a convoy at night between Buna ntl photo (Sep., 1945,
and Milne Bay. The destroyer was departing for Singapore,
cut in two and sank with the loss of in wartime grey)
five lives.
1946 (Apr) returned to owners
(Jul) chartered by Royal Australian
Navy for support of British
Commonwealth Occupation Force
in Japan until late 1948
1949 (Mar) returned to owners
and resumed coastal trade and
Pacific islands cruising
1959 laid up
1960 sold to Hong Kong buyers
1961 r/n Tong Hoo and carried
pilgrims from Indonesia to Jeddah
1965 transferred to another firm
r/n Lydia for a service from India
and Pakistan to East Africa
1967 laid up in Singapore
1968 scrapped
Photo from the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
Katoomba (McIlwraith McEacharn) slsa photo art colour
twscs 9,424gt 1913 Belfast postcard uw (c. 1915)
(Built for Australian coastal Image No. B 10200
passenger trade) sln album of 8 photos
1918 (May)-1919 (Sep) troopship 1 aq 7 uw (including
1941 (Mar) troopship again 1 World War I 'dazzle'
carried troops and equipment paint & 1 art postcard)
to New Guinea and returned Digital Order No.
with evacuees, and then carried a637953
troops and hospital personnel slv 2 photos uw
to Darwin (postcard, c. 1930)
1942 (Feb) Convoy MS5 Image No. pc002091
1943-1944 troop carrying (entering/leaving port)
1946 returned to owners and Image No. b42971
sold to Greek buyers awm photo (disembarking
1947 chartered to French Line an infantry battalion into
for service to the West Indies landing barges at Siar,
1949 refitted and r/n Columbia New Guinea, Jul. 1944
Made one voyage with emigrants ID No. 074923
to Australia awm photo (embarking
1950 (April) in Greek Line sevice troops at Boram Beach,
to Canada New Guinea for return
1958 laid up Piraeus to Australia Oct. 1945
1959 scrapped ID No. 097875
nmm photo (copy of a
builders photo) uw
No. PP11184
Postcard in the author's collection
Mangola, ex-Endunda (Burns Philp) - sln album 3 photos of
3,352gt 1920 Sydney poscards - 1am, 2aq
1926 purchased by Burns Philp Digital Order No.
and in the Sigapore trade Album ID 824446
1942 (Jan) Convoy MS3 diverted slv photo uw
to Batavia (now Jakarta) came Image No. b37390
back through Sunda Straits to slq photo am (1936)
Fremantle with jury rigged steering Image No. 178379
(damaged earlier in a collision)
1942-1943 cargo service to Port
Moresby and Milne Bay
1943 (Dec) blown aground on a
reef near Cooktown, North
Queensland in a cyclone, salvaged
and towed to Sydney for repairs
1944 (Sep) back in service after
repairs carrying supplies to military
installations in northern Australia
1948 returned to Singapore trade
1957 sold to Hong Kong owners
r/n Torres Breeze
1959 sold to Chinese interests
r/n Foochow
1964 scrapped
From a postcard in the author's collection
Marella, ex-Hilda Woorman sln album of 6 photos -
(Burns Philp) - 7,475gt 1914 1 ut, 5 uw (i aerial)
Hamburg Digital Order No.
1920 purchased by Burns Philp a638394
from UK Government ntl photo of postcard uw
In the Singapore trade Image No. PH0340/0002
1942 (Jan) Convoy MS3 ntl photo am (Thursday
diverted to Batavia (now Island)
Jakarta) brought back evacuees Image No. PH0169/0005
via Sunda Straits and Fremantle nmm photo
1942 taken over by the No. P11692
Government, armed and with
naval gunners, spent the next
two years mainly on the coastal
run between Sydney and
Fremantle
1945 carried troops to
Torokina on Bouganville in the
Solomon Islands, and was
grounded. Salvaged and returned
to Sydney, was still under repair
when the war ended.
Resumed the Singapore trade
1949 sold to Panamanian
owners and converted to
a refugee ship
1950 made a voyage to Australia
under charter to the International
Refugee Organisation. Broke
down in the Indian Ocean 450
miles from Fremantle and was
towed in by Chandpara in January
1951. After legal disputation about
the towage and repairs, left in
August 1951. Made two more
voyages to Australia (r/n Corsica)
before being laid up.
1954 scrapped
From Roland W Charles' "Troopships of World War II"
Willard A. Holbrook (USAT) Photo as President Taft,
(ex-President Taft (I) 1922, Arnold Kludas, op. cit.,
Buckeye State 1921) Vol. 2, p.113
twscs 10,000gt 1921 Baltimore, MA
1941 (Jun) taken over by US Army
and converted to troopship
1943 conversion to hospital ship
begun but not completed before VJ
Day
1945 converted to military
dependents carrier.
1957 sold for scrapping