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HMT Katoomba

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History
Name SS Katoomba
Builder/Built 1913 Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Type Passenger steamship
Displacement 9,424 tons
Speed 16 knots


Remarks

Built for McIllwraith, McEacharn Ltd of Melbourne for the Sydney to Western Australia passenger run. Requisitioned as a troopship in the later stage of World War 1, she was returned to her owners in 1920. In February 1942 she was again requisitioned as a troopship and was returned to her owners in 1946. Sold to a Greek shipping company, in 1949 she was renamed Columbia before being retired from service in June 1950. laid up at Piraeus in March 1958 and scrapped at Nagasaki in 1959.

Soldiers carried

Sydney to Townsville 12 - 15 May 1943

Sydney to Aitape, new Guinea 5 - 13 November 1944

Townsville to Jacquinot Bay, New Britain 11 - 20 March 1945