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ss WAROONGA built by A & J Inglis Pointhouse Glasgow,
Yard No 172
Last Name: BANSEI MARU (1913)
Propulsion: steam, compound engine with 2 inverted cylinders of 40 & 73 inches diameter respectively; stroke 51 inches; 300 horsepower; engine by the builders
Launched: Monday, 25/12/1882
Built: 1883
Ship Type: Passenger Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 2506 grt
Length: 315.8 feet
Breadth: 38.2 feet
Owner History:
Gray, Dawes & Co., Glasgow
1885 British India Assoc. Steamers
1888 British India Steam Navigation Company Glasgow & London
T. Yoshida Japan (1913)
Kishimoto Kisen K.K (1914)
Status: Scrapped - ??/??/1926

Remarks: Official Number: 86749 Maiden voyage London to Brisbane via Suez and Batavia on 26th March 1883
Broken up in Japan Q1/1926. Previous update by Bruce Biddulph


Last updated: by George Robinson from the original records by Stuart Cameron

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Informations given by Auke
She was built under yard no 172 by A & J Inglis, Glasgow for the British Steam Navigation Co. (B.I.).
25 Dec. 1882, launched under the name WAROONGA, named after a homestead north west of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Tonnage 2.510 gross, 1.607 net, 3.220 dwt., dim 315.8 x 38.2 x 17.3ft., draught 22.3ft..
Inverted compound 2-cyl. steamengine, manufactured by builder, 317 nhp, speed 11 knots. 326 tons bunker capacity.
Brigantine rigged.
Accommodation for 37 first, 16 second and 1.361 deck passengers.
29 Dec. 1882, delivered to owners, building cost £56.300. Her registered owners are given as A.Gray and E.S.Dawis.
On her maiden voyage she sailed from London on 26 March 1883 via Suez and Batavia to Brisbane. Sometimes she made a voyage to Calcutta.
1885 Formal ownership was transferred to the newly formed British India Associated Steamers Ltd..
1887 Transferred to the Australasian United Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., an amalgamation of the B.I., Q.S.S. Co. and the Australasian Steam Navigation Co..
She made her last sailing in this service on 07 Jan. 1890. Then transferred to the mail-service between Melbourne and Cooktown, sometimes an voyage to London.
When in 1893 gold was discovered in Western Australia, she was transferred in Sept. that year to a service between Australian east coast ports to Western Australia.
In May 1896 she was fitted out with a bilge keel at Sydney, because of the long rollers she met when crossing the Great Australian Bight.
14 May 1896 she collided with the barquentine HANDA ISLE during manoeuvring in Darling Harbor.
When most of the traffic in the goldrush was over, she was sold in December 1899 to the B.I for £ 12.500, and sent to Calcutta and used in the liner services of the B.I. in the Indian Ocean, first in the mail service between Rangoon, Madras and Calcutta.
During 1903/04 was she in the service between Colombo and Tuticorin for a few months.
The WAROONGA was later put in the mailservice to the Persian Gulf.
Dec. 1905 grounded off Bahrein, but refloated.
26 March 1913 Sold to T. Yosida on behalf of the Kishimoto K.K.K. at Dairen for £ 5.750. renamed in BANSEI MARU.
1917 Sold to K. Kusakabe of Kobe not renamed.
1920 Sold to Kabafuto K.K.K. of Tsuruga, not renamed. He was the owner till she was broken up in Japan in 1926.

source North Star to Southern Cross by John M. Maber. The British India Steam Navigation Company Limited by W.A. Laxon and F.W.Perry.