WANNON
...ex GALE New Zealand

Australian and New Zealand

Built 1919 - 1957

567 gross tons.

Lbd: 167'4" x 26'6" x 11'.

BELFAST & KOROIT Steam Navigation Co., Port Fairy

Steel hulled, single screw steam coaster, coal burner (burnt briquettes when on Melbourne-Tassie run); 3cyl triple expansion steam engine, 61 nhp

Built 1919 at Enkhuisen, Holland, as Boschpolder

1920 as British flag Rawlinson; 1922 to Canterbury Steamship Co. Ltd.

Lyttleton, N.Z, as Gale

1935 to Belfast & Koroit Steam navigation Co. Ltd., Melbourne, renamed Wannon. During World War 2 as (S-153) carried general equipment, stores to U.S. Army camps at islands such as Woodlark, Kiriwina, Goodenough.

Also served at Lae, Finschhafen and Wewak.

Returned to owners and in 1957 went to Hong Kong shipbreakers

Details: Flotilla Australia (John Hoskings)

Photo Credits: The late Allan Green Collection Vic Australia