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The KATOOMBA was built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast in 1913 for McIlwraith, McEacharn Ltd of Melbourne. She was a 9,424 gross ton ship, length 466ft x beam 60ft, one funnel, two masts, triple screw and a speed of 16 knots. Her first voyage started 2nd Sep.1913 when she sailed from Sydney for Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany and Fremantle. Requisitioned as a troopship in May 1918 and refitted at Sydney in 1919-1920.
She returned to passenger service in March 1920. She operated in Queensland and Western Australia coastal services and in cruising between 1932-1939 and in Feb.1942 was again converted to a troopship. Returned to her owners in 1946, she was sold to Goulandris Bros of Greece in July of that year and registered in Panama.
Operated by the Greek Line, she was renamed COLUMBIA in 1949, transferred to the Bremen - Montreal sevice in June 1950, laid up at Piraeus in March 1958 and scrapped at Nagasaki in 1959
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Photo Credits: The Late Don Ross Collection