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