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GALE (1919)
Service dates: 1919-1945
Official number: 144616
Shipping lines: CANTERBURY STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.; WILLIAM HOLYMAN & SONS LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 07.1919
- Completed as Boschpolder for Algemeene Nederland.
- 1922
- Sold to E T Lindley and renamed Rawlinson.
- 1923
- Sold to the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company Ltd and renamed Gale.
- 1935
- Sold to Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Company and renamed Wannon. She was re-registered at Melbourne, Australia.
- 05.1939
- Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Company was acquired by William Holyman & Sons Ltd, thereby bringing the ship back into P&O Group service.
- 1939-1945
- Carried general equipment, stores to US Army camps at islands such as Woodlark, Kiriwina and Goodenough. Also served at Lae, Finschhafen and Wewak.
- 12.1945
- Sold to Victorian Lighterage Pty Ltd, Melbourne, and used as a steam lighter in Port Phillip.
- 1957
- Sold to a Hong Kong shipbreaker.