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Name
Official number
Flag
IMO
BALLARAT
131851
GBR
Year built
Date launched
Date completed
1911
23/09/1911
Vessel type
Vessel description
Passenger / Cargo Refrigerated
Steel Screw Steamer 2 Masts
Builder
Yard
Yard no
Caird & Company, Greenock
318
Tonnage
Length
Breadth
Depth
Draft
11120 grt / /
500.1 ft
62.8 ft
31.9 ft
Engine builder
Caird & Company, Greenock
Engine detail
2-Screw, 2xQ4cyl, 9000ihp
First owner
First port of register
Registration date
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock
Greenock
Other names
Subsequent owner and registration history
Vessel history
Troop Transport during WWI
Remarks
End year
Fate / Status
1917
Torpedoed 25/04/1917
Disposal Detail
Torpedoed by UB-32 when 24 miles S by W of Wolf Rock on passage Melbourne-UK, troops, copper, antimony ore etc. No lives lost. Taken in tow but sank.
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