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BALLARAT (1921)
Service dates: 1921-1935
Official number: 145596
Shipping lines: P&O BRANCH LINE; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 29.11.1918
- Ordered.
- 29.04.1919
- Keel laid.
- 04.09.1920
- Launched.
- 14.12.1921
- Ran trials and delivered as Ballarat for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £989,392.
- 15.12.1921
- Left Greenock for London.
- 27.01.1922
- First line voyage to Sydney via Cape Town and Melbourne.
- 1926
- One voyage was delayed by strikes in South Africa and Australia, and bunker fire in King George V Dock.
- 1929
- Fitted with exhaust turbines and converted to burn oil fuel.
- 06.1929
- First sailing on the four-weekly secondary service via the Mediterranean.
- 18.05.1930
- Delayed for 14 days after hitting a submerged object in the Suez Canal.
- 12.1934
- Last outward sailing, from Liverpool to Brisbane.
- 16.01.1935
- Delayed for 9 days at Colombo with damage to starboard propeller shaft.
- 02.1935
- Left Australia on last homeward sailing.
- 20.05.1935
- Sold for £23,500 to T W Ward Ltd for demolition.
- 27.05.1935
- Delivered at Briton Ferry.
- 18.08.1935
- Fire in her No.1 hold in the breaker’s yard.