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| caption2      = Members of the 2nd Australian Prisoner of War Reception Group disembark from the MV Duntroon in Singapore, 13 Sep 1945 (AWM 117237)
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| shipname =  HMT Duntroon
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| shipowner = Melbourne Steamship Company
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| shipbuilder = Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne
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| shipyardnumber = 1460
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| shiplaunched = 4 April 1935
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| shipcompleted = August 1935
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| shipinservice = 1935
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| shipoutofservice = 1967
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| shipID = VLFB
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| shipfate = scrapped 1968
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| shiptype = Passenger ship
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| shiptonnage = 10,346 tons
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| shiplength = 455.0 ft (138.7 m)
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| shipbeam = 65.2 ft (19.9 m)
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| shipdepth = 30.2 ft (9.2 m)
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| shippropulsion = twin screw
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| shipspeed = 19 knots (35.19 km/h)
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| shipcapacity = 373 passengers
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==Remarks==
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Built for the Melbourne Steamship Company with a capacity of 373 passengers, and used on the east coast-Fremantle route. She saw military service between 1942 and 1949. Originally intended as an Armed Merchant Cruiser, she was found to be unsuitable for this role and was returned to her owners. In November 1940 the ''Duntroon'' collided with and sank the auxiliary minesweeper ''HMAS Goorangi'' near the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. All 24 crew of the Goorangi perished.
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| header1  = History
 
  
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In February 1942 she was requisitioned for use as a troopship, and was used amongst other things to transport Australian troops home from the Middle East before commencing duties in the south Pacific. In November 1943 she was involved in a second sinking when she sank the destroyer, ''USS Perkins'' with the loss of 9 Americans near Ipoteto Island off the coast of New Guinea. Both sinkings were investigated and the ''Duntroon'' was found not to be responsible for either of them.
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Her army duty complete in 1946 she was turned over to the RAN for transport duties with the Occupying Force in Japan. Returned to her civilian owners in 1950, in 1961 she was sold to Kie Hock Shipping Company. Renamed ''Tong Hoo'' she was used on the Hong Kong-Indonesia passenger service.  Sold again in 1966 to the Africa Shipping Company, and renamed ''Lydia'' before being laid up in Singapore in 1967 and sailed to Taiwan for scrapping in 1973.
|  data3  = 1939 Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne
 
  
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==Soldiers carried==
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===Fremantle to Adelaide 21 - 25 July 1941===
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2/4th Machine Gun Battalion
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* [[James William Basell]]
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* [[Basil Fitzgerald]]
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* [[Ralph Godfrey]]
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* [[Charles William (Tiny) Gray]]
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*† [[Edgar Joseph Howard]]
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*† [[Herbert Michael (Bert) Rubery]]
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* [[Harold Edward (Tony) Saw]]
  
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===Fremantle to Melbourne 31 October - early November 1941===
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* [[Edward Charles Vickers]]
  
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===Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to Melbourne 25 March - 15 May 1942===
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*[[Charles William (Charlie) Divall]]
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===Milne Bay, New Guinea to Brisbane 2 - 6 January 1942===
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*[[George Charles Owens]]
  
==Remarks==
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===Brisbane to Port Moresby, New Guinea 2 - 10 November 1942===
Built for the Melbourne Steamship Company with a capacity of 373 passengers, and used on the east coast-Fremantle route. She saw military service between 1942 and 1949. Originally intended as an Armed Merchant Cruiser, she was found to be unsuitable for this role and was returned to her owners. In November 1940 the Duntroon collided with and sank the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Goorangi near the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. All 24 crew of the Goorangi perished.
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* [[Alexander William Turner MID]]
  
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===Port Moresby, New Guinea to Townsville 5 - 7 December 1942===
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* [[John Patrick Whitaker]]
  
In February 1942 she was requisitioned for use as a troopship, and was used amongst other things to transport Australian troops home from the Middle East before commencing duties in the south Pacific. In November 1943 she was involved in a second sinking when she sank the destroyer, USS Perkins with the loss of 9 Americans near Ipoteto Island off the coast of New Guinea. Both sinkings were investigated and the Duntroon was found not to be responsible for either of them.
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===Port Moresby, New Guinea to Townsville 19 March - 22 March 1943===
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* [[Andrew Wilkinson]]
  
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===Townsville to Port Moresby, New Guinea 8 - 11 May 1943===
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*[[Harold Herman Hilbert]]
  
Her army duty complete in 1946 she was turned over to the RAN for transport duties with the Occupying Force in Japan. Returned to her civilian owners in 1950, and in 1961 sold to Kie Hock Shipping Company. Renamed ''Tong Hoo'' she was used on the Hong Kong-Indonesia passenger service.  Sold again in 1966 to Africa Shipping Company, and renamed ''Lydia'' before being laid up in Singapore in 1967 and sailed to Taiwan for scrapping in 1973.
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===Townsville to Port Moresby, New Guinea 16 - 20 June 1943===
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* [[Frederick Arnold Griffiths]]
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* [[Andrew Wilkinson]]
  
===Soldiers carried===
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===Townsville to Port Moresby 19 - 22 Jul 1943===
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* [[Robert Ralph Thompson]]
  
===Fremantle to Adelaide 21 - 25 Jul 1941===
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===Townsville to Port Moresby, New Guinea 31 July - 2 August 1943===
2/48 Machine Gun Battalion
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* [[Ralph Godfrey]]
*[[James William Basell]]
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* [[Edward Maurice Trew]]
*[[Basil Fitzgerald]]
 
*[[Edgar Joseph Howard]]
 
*[[Harold Edward (Tony) Saw]]
 
  
===Colombo, Ceylon to Melbourne 25 March - 15 May 1942===
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===Townsville to Port Moresby, New Guinea 6 - 8 August 1943===
*[[Charles William Divall]]
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* [[Len Malarkey]]
  
===Milne Bay to Brisbane 2 - 6 Jan 1942===
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===Townsville to Buna, Papua New Guinea 22 - 27 November 1943===
*[[George Charles Owens]]
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* [[Eric William Taylor]]
  
===Townsville to Port Moresby 8 - 11 May 1943===
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===Sydney to Darwin 18 - 28 February 1944===
*[[Harold Herman Hilbert]]
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* [[Vesey Fitzgerald]]
  
===Townsville to Port Moresby 16 - 20 June 1943===
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===Finschhafen, New Guinea to Townsville 4 - 8 May 1944===
*[[Frederick Arnold Griffiths]]
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* [[Ashley Claude George Moseley Cordy]]
  
===Townsville to Port Moresby 31 July - 2 August 1943===
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===Brisbane to Wewak, New Guinea 12 - 18 July 1944===
*[[Ralph Godfrey]]
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* [[John William Shackleton]]
  
===Townsville to Port Moresby 6 - 8 August 1943===
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===Brisbane to Madang, New Guinea  25 August - 2 September 1944===
*[[Len Malarkey]]
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* [[Edward Charles Vickers]]
  
===Townsville to Buna, Papua New Guinea 22 - 27 November 1943===
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===Cairns to Aitape, New Guinea 3 - 7 November 1944===
*[[Eric William Taylor]]
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* [[Alexander William Turner MID]]
  
===Brisbane to Madang, New Guinea 25 August - 2 September 1944===
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===Brisbane to Aitape, New Guinea 24 -27 November 1944===
*[[Edward Charles Vickers]]
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* [[Alan Henry Brockwell]]
  
 
===Torokina, Bougainville to Sydney 13 - 19 February 1945===
 
===Torokina, Bougainville to Sydney 13 - 19 February 1945===
*[[Harold Herman Hilbert]]
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* [[Harold Herman Hilbert]]
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===Brisbane to Lae, New Guinea 2 - 7 May 1945===
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* [[Arvonia (Jean) Curtis]]
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* [[Margaret Frances Saw]]
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* [[John Stephen Serventy]]
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===Brisbane to Madang, new Guinea 18 - 25 May 1945===
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* [[Mervyn (Merv) James Rose]]
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===Brisbane to Torokina, Bougainville & Lae New Guinea 5 - 13 June 1945===
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* [[Angus Sherwood James]] (Bougainville)
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* [[Denys Brettell Duke]] Lae
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* [[Arthur McVeigh]] Lae
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===Torokina, Bougainville to Newcastle, NSW 26 July - 1 August 1945===
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* [[John Henry (Jack) O'Meagher]]
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===Morotai, Dutch East Indies to Townsville 26 October to 9 November 1945===
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* [[Thomas Stanley O'Meagher]]
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===Wewak, New Guinea to Brisbane 1 - 7 December 1945===
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* [[John William Shackleton]]
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* [[Alexander William Turner MID]]
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===Rabaul, New Britain to Brisbane 3 - 13 January 1946===
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* [[Charles Kenneth Neilson]]
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===Sydney to Kure, Japan 12 March to 9 April 1946===
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* [[Brian Albert Rose]]
  
===Morotai to Townsville 26 October to 9 November 1945===
 
*[[Thomas Stanley Meagher]]
 
 
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[[Category:Ships]]

Latest revision as of 17:58, 12 March 2023

HMT Duntroon
HMT Duntroon.jpg
HMT Duntroon 2.jpg
Members of the 2nd Australian Prisoner of War Reception Group disembark from the MV Duntroon in Singapore, 13 Sep 1945 (AWM 117237)
History
Name HMT Duntroon
Owner Melbourne Steamship Company
Builder Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne
Yard number 1460
Launched 4 April 1935
Completed August 1935
In service 1935
Out of service 1967
Fate scrapped 1968
General characteristics
Type Passenger ship
Tonnage 10,346 tons
Length 455.0 ft (138.7 m)
Beam 65.2 ft (19.9 m)
Depth 30.2 ft (9.2 m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 19 knots (35.19 km/h)
Capacity 373 passengers



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Remarks

Built for the Melbourne Steamship Company with a capacity of 373 passengers, and used on the east coast-Fremantle route. She saw military service between 1942 and 1949. Originally intended as an Armed Merchant Cruiser, she was found to be unsuitable for this role and was returned to her owners. In November 1940 the Duntroon collided with and sank the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Goorangi near the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. All 24 crew of the Goorangi perished.


In February 1942 she was requisitioned for use as a troopship, and was used amongst other things to transport Australian troops home from the Middle East before commencing duties in the south Pacific. In November 1943 she was involved in a second sinking when she sank the destroyer, USS Perkins with the loss of 9 Americans near Ipoteto Island off the coast of New Guinea. Both sinkings were investigated and the Duntroon was found not to be responsible for either of them.


Her army duty complete in 1946 she was turned over to the RAN for transport duties with the Occupying Force in Japan. Returned to her civilian owners in 1950, in 1961 she was sold to Kie Hock Shipping Company. Renamed Tong Hoo she was used on the Hong Kong-Indonesia passenger service. Sold again in 1966 to the Africa Shipping Company, and renamed Lydia before being laid up in Singapore in 1967 and sailed to Taiwan for scrapping in 1973.

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Adelaide 21 - 25 July 1941

2/4th Machine Gun Battalion

Fremantle to Melbourne 31 October - early November 1941

Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to Melbourne 25 March - 15 May 1942

Milne Bay, New Guinea to Brisbane 2 - 6 January 1942

Brisbane to Port Moresby, New Guinea 2 - 10 November 1942

Port Moresby, New Guinea to Townsville 5 - 7 December 1942

Port Moresby, New Guinea to Townsville 19 March - 22 March 1943

Townsville to Port Moresby, New Guinea 8 - 11 May 1943

Townsville to Port Moresby, New Guinea 16 - 20 June 1943

Townsville to Port Moresby 19 - 22 Jul 1943

Townsville to Port Moresby, New Guinea 31 July - 2 August 1943

Townsville to Port Moresby, New Guinea 6 - 8 August 1943

Townsville to Buna, Papua New Guinea 22 - 27 November 1943

Sydney to Darwin 18 - 28 February 1944

Finschhafen, New Guinea to Townsville 4 - 8 May 1944

Brisbane to Wewak, New Guinea 12 - 18 July 1944

Brisbane to Madang, New Guinea 25 August - 2 September 1944

Cairns to Aitape, New Guinea 3 - 7 November 1944

Brisbane to Aitape, New Guinea 24 -27 November 1944

Torokina, Bougainville to Sydney 13 - 19 February 1945

Brisbane to Lae, New Guinea 2 - 7 May 1945

Brisbane to Madang, new Guinea 18 - 25 May 1945

Brisbane to Torokina, Bougainville & Lae New Guinea 5 - 13 June 1945

Torokina, Bougainville to Newcastle, NSW 26 July - 1 August 1945

Morotai, Dutch East Indies to Townsville 26 October to 9 November 1945

Wewak, New Guinea to Brisbane 1 - 7 December 1945

Rabaul, New Britain to Brisbane 3 - 13 January 1946

Sydney to Kure, Japan 12 March to 9 April 1946