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IRON CHIEFTAIN
Iron Chieftain (1)
Australian
1937 - 1942
4812 tons, 2737 net 8130 dwt.
BHP Shipping Co.
Lbd: 404'5" x 56'2" x 26'1".
Ore carrier.
Built by Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow, Scotland for BHP. Fourth vessel of the 'Chieftain' class. Propulsion: steam, quadruple expansion, 553 nhp. Exhaust turbine manufactured by David Rowan & Co, Glasgow. Ran on 36 tons of coal per day. Service speed 11 knots. Crew 47.
26 December 1937 departed the Clyde for Birkenhead, loading 1,300 tons of ferro-manganese. Next port being Lorenco Marques loaded 4,000 tons of chrome ore and eventually at Fremantle 1,330 tons of scrap metal. Port Kembla discharged 946 tons of chrome ore and steamed on to Newcastle discharging the remainder of cargoes.
All on her maiden voyage. Held five cargo hatches and improved cargo handling systems in derrick cranes and addition of hydraulic rams. Sunk by Japanese submarine (1.24) 60 km east of Manly, 3 June 1942 on a voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales to Whyalla, South Australia.
Twelve crew lost including Captain
Details: Flotilla Australia
Photo Credits: The Late Allan Green Victoria Australia
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I haven't sailed on this particular class but I have sailed on ships configured in this manner, with the engines aft and a "split house". Usually the Master, Mates, Radio Officer and "Radio Shack" occupied the "forward house", along with paying passengers, if any. The after house usually housed the Engineers and Steward Department, as well as the Galley, Crew's Mess and Saloon. I don't know if that was the case here, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were.
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I was privileged to sail on three of these, commonly called the Chieftain class. I served on the Iron Monarch Built 1942 (4 times), Iron Duke Built 1943 (2 times) and Iron Baron built 1936 (the oldest, 2 times) they all still had gun mountings in place left over from the second World War. Two of them were sunk by the Japanese, they were the Iron Knight and the Iron Chieftain. The rest got through, they were the Iron King, the Iron Monarch, the Iron Baron and the Iron Duke...My brother, uncle and father sailed on the Iron King and some of the others.
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