BARADINE (1921)

Service dates: 1921-1936

Official number: 145419

Shipping lines: P&O BRANCH LINE; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:

• Passenger Ship

Passenger Liner.

Career

27.11.1920

Launched.

18.08.1921

Ran trials and delivered as Baradine for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £1,135,370. First of the post-war ‘B’ class vessels to be completed, to enlarge the P&O Branch Line emigrant service via the Cape as well as to replace war losses and sales. Baradine is a town in northeast New South Wales.

21.09.1921

Maiden voyage from London. She remained on the Cape route until 1929, despite reduced emigrant traffic after 1926.

1922

Diverted to Falmouth to pick up passengers and cargo from sister Bendigo returning after dropping a screw near Las Palmas.

01.10.1925

Collided with LMS ferry Catherine off Gravesend. Baradine was undamaged but Catherine had extensive damage to her stern and also damaged her bow in collision with Tilbury Pier.

09.1926

No.3 hold flooded to put out fire in reserve coal stored there.

11.1926

On arrival at Adelaide 16 firemen and trimmers refused to continue working; the ship finished her voyage with 59 volunteers from among the passengers working in the stokehold.

1929

First of her class to be fitted, in her case at Falmouth, with Bauer-Wach exhaust turbines and Wyndham heaters, boosting speed to 16.5 knots. She was also converted to oil fuel, which reduced consumption, and had revised 586 one-class accommodation with no temporary berths.

12.04.1929

First voyage from London via Suez on a new four-weekly secondary service.

10.08.1929

First sailing from Liverpool, the Cape route being dropped from P&O’s itineraries.

18.11.1932

Fire in a hold while lying in King George V drydock. Extinguished by the local fire brigade.

29.06.1936

Sold for £26,000 to W H Arnott Young and Co Ltd for demolition.

01.07.1936

Delivered at Dalmuir.

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