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History
Name MS Gorgon
Builder/Built 1933 Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co.
Type Motor Ship Passenger/cargo
Displacement 3,633 tons


Remarks

Built for the Holt Blue Funnel Line to operate for the West Australian Steam Navigation Company to the north-west, Java and Singapore. Sold for scrap in 1964

Soldiers carried

Townsville to Lae, New Guinea 14 - 18 August 1944

Brisbane to Aitape, Papua, New Guinea 4 - 10 October 1944

Wewak, New Guinea to Sydney 20 August - 4 September 1945