SS Katoomba
Australian interstate passenger liner and troop ship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SS Katoomba was a passenger steamship that was built in Ireland 1913, spent most of her career in Australian ownership and was scrapped in Japan in 1959. McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co owned her for more than three decades, including two periods when she was a troopship. In 1946 the Goulandris brothers bought her for their Greek Line and registered her in Panama. In 1949 she was renamed Columbia.
Katoomba leaving Fremantle in 1926 | |
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Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Yard number | 437 |
Launched | 10 April 1913 |
Completed | 10 July 1913 |
Refit | 1920, 1946, 1949 |
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Fate | Scrapped 1959 |
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Type | passenger ship |
Tonnage | 9,424 GRT, 5,499 NRT |
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Beam | 60.3 ft (18.4 m) |
Draught | 26 ft 11 in (8.20 m) |
Depth | 34.2 ft (10.4 m) |
Decks | 2 |
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Troops | about 2,000 |
Crew | as built: 170 |
In Australian civilian service Katoomba mostly worked scheduled coastal routes, initially between Sydney and Fremantle. For Greek Line she mostly worked transatlantic routes between Europe and North America, and her passengers included European emigrants. Between 1947 and 1949 Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) chartered her for service between France and the French West Indies.
The ship was refitted in 1920, 1946 and 1949. She was a coal-burner until her 1949 refit, when she was converted to burn oil. Columbia was damaged by fires in 1952 and 1957 and a collision in 1956. She was laid up from 1957 and scrapped in 1959.