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SS Port Lyttleton

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SS Port Lyttleton
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Courtesy QLD State Library 1 141603
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From the AC Green collection
History
Name SS Port Lyttleton
Owner Tyser Line Ltd
Builder Workman & Clark, Belfast
Launched 1902
In service 1902
Out of service 1924
Fate broken up 1924
General characteristics
Type Passenger / refrigerated cargo
Tonnage 6,444 tons
Length 137.2m
Beam 16.8m
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 12 knots (22.22 km/h)



Remarks

Built as the Niwaru for the Tyser Line Ltd, in 1914 she was taken over by the Commonwealth & Dominion Line, London, before being requisitioned in 1916 as a troop ship and renamed SS Port Lyttleton. During January 1924 the Port Lyttelton ran aground on a sand bar at the mouth of the Tamar River, Tasmania. Made one trip as HMNZT 71 departing New Zealand in December 1916, and then in June 1918 departed Sydney on a 'Single Charter' carryng 104 AIF personnel

Scrapped in Italy in 1924 following a grounding off Tasmania.

Soldiers carried

England to Fremantle 19 November 1917 - ?

England to Fremantle 23 October - 12 December 1918