MS Gorgon

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. One of a group of 46 ships that were the last to leave Singapore Harbour before the surrender. Of these only 6 made it to Australia safely, MS Gorgon being one of them. In April 1943 the SS Gorgon was bombed and damaged in Milne Bay, with 4 of her crew killed.

Sold for scrap in 1964

Soldiers carried

Townsville to Lae, New Guinea 14 - 18 August 1944

• Derrick Leonard Saw

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

• John Henry Adams

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

• Albert William Chadwick