Name SS Barcoo Yard number 305 Displacement 1,505 gross tons Length 76 m Draft 4.72 m | Namesake Barcoo River Fate Scuttled in 1924 Launched 10 August 1885 Weight 1,529 tons | |
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Owner Queensland Steam Shipping Company (1885-1887)
Australasian United Steam Navigation Company (1887-1914)
Royal Australian Navy (1914-1924) Builder William Denny and Brothers | ||
SS Barcoo was a 1,505 gross ton passenger ship built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton in 1885 for the Queensland Steam Shipping Company. She was transferred upon merger of parent company to the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company in 1857. She was hulked in 1911 and requistioned by the Royal Australian Navy in 1914 and utilised as a coal hulk in Sydney Harbour.
Fate
Barcoo was scuttled by naval gunfire on 1 February 1924 off Sydney Heads in the Sydney Disposal Area.
References
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