AGE
Age (3)

Australian

1936 _ 1970

4,734 tons.

Lb: 88.3 x 11.6 metres.

Steel single screw cargo vessel built by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn for Australian Steamships Pty Ltd (Howard Smith), Sydney.

Time chartered by BHP July 1959 intially for 12 months. Subsequentially for a further four years, ultimately becoming nine years.

1968 sold to Collin Navigation Co., Panama renamed Collin Rose in 1969. Wrecked Paluan Bay, Mindoro 17th October 1970

DETAILS: Flotilla Australia

Photo Credits: The Late Allan Green Collection Vic. Australia