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Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
MAKAMBO |
121180 |
AUS |
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Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
1907 |
16/03/1907 |
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Vessel type |
Vessel description
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Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
Clyde Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow |
Castle Works |
273 |
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Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
1159 grt / 648 nrt / |
210.3 ft |
31.4 ft |
14.8 ft |
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Engine builder |
Clyde Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow |
Engine detail |
1-screw. T3Cyl. (17, 27 & 45 - 33)in. 145NHP. |
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First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., Sydney |
Sydney, Australia |
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Other names |
1939 KAINAN MARU |
Subsequent owner and registration history |
1939 Okada Gumi K.K., Osaka |
Vessel history |
20/09/1935 beached after springing a leak at Miltayriki, Vila in the New Hebrides, sold for breaking but refloated by Japanese salvors and repaired |
Remarks |
1910 Carried world astronomers from Sydney to view Halleys Comet. |
End year |
Fate / Status |
1944 |
Torpedoed 12/06/1944 |
Disposal Detail |
Torpedoed by HM submarine STOIC off Phuket, 07.54N - 98.27E. |
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Makambo - Image from the Green Collection – Stat
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