Walumba

[john sefton]

Another conference has been commemorated by an Australian stamp issued on February 26, 1969, the Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbours, the venue being the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, from March 3-8, which had a temporary post office established and a special conference postmark. The stamp design shows a Melbourne harbour scene with ships and a tug and the city skyline in the background.
The tug on the left is the Walumba; the ship in the middle is the Celtic Monarch; and the ship on the right with the bow showing is the City of Ottawa.
The Walumba is a motor tug, built by the Adelaide Ship Constructions Ltd., at Adelaide in 1960, for Mcllwraith, McEacharn Ltd., Melbourne. She is fitted with a British Polar engine developing 1,310 b.h.p. to give 11 knots. Gross tonnage is 269 tons.

Sea Breezes June 1969

Australia SG438

[aukepalmhof]

She was the first diesel engine tug in Melbourne.
1976 Sold to Maldives Shipping Ltd., Male, Maldives and renamed in CAPRICORN, used in the waters of Colombo.
1984 Sold to Central Atolis Shipping Ltd., Maldives and renamed FUSFARU, managed by Maldives Shipping Ltd.
1986 Broken up.