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WILCANNIA (1899)
Service dates: 1910-1914
Official number: 110154
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O BRANCH LINE
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 26.05.1899
- Launched.
- 07.1899
- Completed as Wilcannia for W Lund & Sons. Wilcannia is a town on the Darling River in western New South Wales. She was a sister to Narrung and Wakool.
- 1905
- Registered in the ownership of Blue Anchor Line Ltd (W Lund & Sons, managers).
- 23.03.1910
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for £35,152.
- 17.08.1910
- First sailing on P&O Branch Line, after refurbishment.
- 01.1912/02.1912
- Delay of about 15 days at Dubai homeward bound due to reefer machinery breakdown.
- 19.03.1914
- Sold for £17,277 to Goshi Kaisha Kishimoto Shokwa, Japan and renamed Shinkoku Maru.
- 1917
- Sold to the French Government and renamed Dumont d’Urville.
- 1919
- Sold to Societe des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes, France.
- 1921
- Renamed Andre Chenier.
- 1926
- Sold to Societa Ligura di Produce Metallica, Italy for demolition at Spezia.