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 |
Contents
- 1 Remarks
- 2 Soldiers carried
- 2.1 Milne Bay to Sydney 6 - 14 December 1942
- 2.2 Sydney to Townsville 12 - 15 May 1943
- 2.3 Buna, Papua New Guinea to Bowen, Queensland 20 - 27 Feb 1944
- 2.4 Fremantle to Sydney 16 - 26 June 1944
- 2.5 Sydney to Aitape, New Guinea 5 - 13 November 1944
- 2.6 Brisbane to Jacquinot Bay, New Britain 19 - 24 February 1945
- 2.7 Townsville to Jacquinot Bay, New Britain 10 - 17 March 1945
- 2.8 Toro Kina, Bouganville to Townsville 11 - 16 December 1945
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.