Yard number 172 Homeport Sydney Propulsion Steam & Propeller Length 96 m | Maiden voyage 26 March 1883 Displacement 2506 GRT Launched 25 December 1882 Builder A. & J. Inglis | |
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The SS Waroonga was a 96.25 metres long passenger cargo vessel built at A & J Inglis with 2506 GRT launched on 25 December 1882. She was owned by Gray, Dawes & Co., Glasgow, and her maiden voyage was from London to Brisbane via Suez and Batavia on 26 March 1883. She had a compound steam engine with 2 inverted cylinders of 1,016 and 1,854 mm diameter respectively; stroke 1,295 mm and provided 300 horsepower.
She was renamed to Bansei Baru in 1913 and broken up in Japan in early 1926.
On her 1883 maiden voyage she had carried Harry "Breaker" Morant to Australia.
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