SS Königin Luise
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 SLWA photo B2287 043 5 | |
 Troopship SS Königin Luise arriving at Fremantle Harbour 3 AUg 1919 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Konigen Luise |
| Builder | AG Vulcan Steettin, Germany |
| Launched | 1896 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean Liner |
| Tonnage | 10,566 tons |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.78 km/h) |
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Remarks
Built for the North German Lloyd (NDL) Line, and used on the Australian, Far East and North Atlantic routes.
Bottled up in German ports during WW1, she was part of the German reparations to Britain after the war.
Sold to the Orient Steam Navigation Company, they renamed her SS Omar in 1921, before selling her in 1924 to the Byron Steam Ship Co of London who called her the SS Edison.
Scrapped in Italy during 1935.
Soldiers carried
England to Fremantle 21 June - 3 August 1919
- Arthur Charles Barber
- George Bett post WW1
- John Henry Holroyd
- Robert Lightbody
- Samuel Mellington Moore
- Charles Henry Murray
- William Percival Nairn
- Arthur Thomas Orton MM
- John Donaldson Patterson & wife to Cape Town 16 Jul 1919
- George William Piesley
- Edwin Lawrence Reed
- William Robert Rigby
- Reginald George Sinclair
- Clarence Otto Sladden
- Francis Joseph (Frank) Steffan
- William John Thompson
- Norman Sedrick Tonkin
- Alan Harry Wilkinson arrived in the district post WW1