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Montoro

Post by shipstamps » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:43 pm


Montoro, a steel, screw steamship of 4,057 gross tons, 2500 net; built by the Clyde Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. at Port Glasgow, in 1911, for Burns, Philp and Co. of Sydney. Her length was 360'/2 ft.; breadth 47 ft. 2 in.; draft 22 ft. 9 in. and depth 23 ft. 8 in. She arrived at Sydney for the Australia-Singapore-Java run in 1912. In 1925 she was refitted and began the New Guinea run. She was to have been sold in 1939, but when war broke out she was taken over by the Australian Government to carry troops for the war in the Pacific against the Japanese. The most dramatic event of her war service was her sinking while bunkering fuel. She was raised and continued in the New Guinea service after the war until sold in 1948. She sailed under a number of flags before ending up in a Japanese scrapyard in 1955. SG300

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