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SS Wollongbar (1922)

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Name
  
Wollongbar

Displacement
  
2,240 gross tons

Launched
  
1922

Weight
  
2,276 tons

Builders
  
Lithgows, Port Glasgow

Yard number
  
746

Beam
  
42.1 ft (12.8 m)

Length
  
87 m

Draft
  
7.28 m

Owner
  
North Coast Steam Navigation Company

Fate
  
Torpedoed and sunk on 29 April 1943

Wollongbar was a 2,239-ton passenger steamship built by the Lithgows, Port Glasgow in 1922 for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, as a replacement for SS Wollongbar (1911) which was wrecked in 1921.

Fate

She was torpedoed by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-180 off Crescent Head, New South Wales while in a convoy on 29 April 1943. When she sank, thirty two crew members died and five of her crew waited until they were rescued.

References

SS Wollongbar (1922) Wikipedia