SS Australasian (1884)
SS Australasian, was built in 1884 by Robert Napier & Co of Govan, Glasgow for George Thompson & Son (Aberdeen Line).[1] She weighed 4,000 long tons (4,100 t).[2]
.jpg.webp) SS Australasian | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name: | SS Australasian |
| Owner: | George Thompson & Company |
| Port of registry: | Aberdeen |
| Builder: | Robert Napier & Sons, Govan |
| Yard number: | 391 |
| Launched: | 10 April 1884 |
| Identification: | Official No: 88859 |
| Fate: | sold in 1906 |
 Turkey | |
| Name: | SS Scham |
| Renamed: | 1907 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1955 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 3662 grt2343 nrt |
| Length: | 361.6 feet (110.2 m) |
| Beam: | 44.2 feet (13.5 m) |
| Depth: | 21.3 feet (6.5 m) |
Australasian took part of the New South Wales Contingent to serve in Sudan with British forces as part of the Suakin Expedition, arriving at the Red Sea port of Suakin on 29 March 1885. In 1906 the Ottoman Government bought her and renamed her Scham. She was torpedoed by HMS E11 on 6 August 1915 in the Sea of Marmara. She was beached near Constantinople to prevent from sinking. Salvaged in 1918 she was reduced to a coal hulk. She was scrapped at Savona, Italy in 1955.[1]
Departure of troopships 'Australian' and 'Iberia' from Sydney for the Soudan in 1855
Australasian Off South Sydney Heads
Notes
- ANMM 2013.
- Froude 2010, p. 19.
References
- Painting of the "SS Australasian at sea", attributed to The English School), Australian National Maritime Museum, 2013, retrieved 30 April 2017
- Froude, James Anthony (2010) [1886], Oceana, Or, England and Her Colonies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 19, ISBN 9781108023900
Further reading
- "The S.S. Australasian", The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 1884
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