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The Adelaide S.S. Coy's interstate freighter "Bungaree" lies in No.1 Dock Port Adelaide, c1938. The coastal freighter "Coramba" is ahead of her.
Built 1937 by Caledon S.&E. Coy at Dundee.
Requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy for service as Australia's only Minelayer in October 1940.
Returned to her owners post-war. Later sold and renamed "Dampier" then "Eastern Mariner".
Struck a mine in the Saigon River on 26 May 1966; Scrapped in 1968.
Photographer: the late Frank Finney.
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