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COMMONWEALTH (1902)
Service dates: 1910-1923
Official number: 115903
Shipping lines: P&O BRANCH LINE; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 23.08.1902
- Launched for Wilhelm Lund, London. Named to mark Australia’s becoming a federated Commonwealth in 1901.
- 10.1902
- Completed as Commonwealth for Wilhelm Lund, London. An advance on Lund’s earlier emigrant vessels Narrung, Wakool and Wilcannia, Commonwealth was aimed at a better class of traveller. 75 saloon class passengers were accommodated in the bridge, and there were 300 third class berths.
- 1905
- Registered in the ownership of Blue Anchor Line Ltd. (W Lund and Sons, managers).
- 06.04.1910
- Purchased for £77,569 by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 15.09.1910
- Maiden P&O sailing.
- 1915/1917
- Served as an Australian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 1917
- Atlantic ‘ferry’ service.
- n.d.
- Laid up at Falmouth.
- 12.04.1923
- Sold for £14,100 to Stabilimento Metallurgica Ligure S A, Italy for demolition at Spezia, the last survivor of the Blue Anchor Line fleet acquired by P&O.