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Wyreema

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Completed
  
1908

Tonnage
  
6,388 GT, 3,362 NT

Wyreema

Namesake
  
Maori Meeting Place of Three Rivers

Owner
  
Australian United Steam Navigation Company (A.U.S.N.)

Builder
  
A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland

Fate
  
Broken up 1958, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Wyreema was an Australian steamship named after the town of Wyreema, Queensland. She was a passenger liner that transported nurses to battle during World War I. She is reported to have "run down" and sunk SS Currajong in 1910. In 1926, she was sold to Brazil and was renamed Dom Pedro I.

Map of Wyreema QLD 4352, Australia

References

Wyreema Wikipedia