Displacement 2,240 gross tons Launched 1922 Weight 2,276 tons | Yard number 746 Beam 42.1 ft (12.8 m) Length 87 m Draft 7.28 m | |
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(Text) CC BY-SA