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| Name | SS Canberra |
| Builder/Built | Alex Stephen & Sons, Glasgow |
| Type | Passenger ship (twin screw) |
| Displacement | 7,707 tons |
| Speed | 15 knots |
Remarks
Owned by the Australian Steamships Ltd (Howard Smith), Melbourne and used on the Melbourne - north Queensland run. Requisitioned in 1917 as a troopship. Returned to her owners in 1920 before again being requisitioned 1941 - 1947. A coal burner she was named "hungry-mary" by her stokers.
1947 sold to Goulandris Bros of Greece and employed on trans Atlantic migrant trade.
Renamed Espana when sold to the Dominican Republic. Scrapped in October 1959.