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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

Milne Bay to Sydney 6 - 14 December 1942

Sydney to Townsville 12 - 15 May 1943

Buna, Papua New Guinea to Bowen, Queensland 20 - 27 Feb 1944

Sydney to Aitape, New Guinea 5 - 13 November 1944

Brisbane to Jacquinot Bay, New Britain 19 - 24 February 1945

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

Toro Kina, Bouganville to Townsville 11 - 16 December 1945