SS Barossa
Barossa | |
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| Builder | Caledon S&E, Dundee |
| Yard number | 370 |
| Launched | 28 February 1938 |
| Sponsored by | Lady Galway |
| Completed | April 1938 |
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| Fate | Scrapped in Hong Kong, 1968 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | bulk carrier |
| Tonnage | 4,239 GRT; 2,382 NRT; 5,600 DWT |
| Length |
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| Beam | 50.3 ft (15.3 m) |
| Draught | 22 ft 7+1⁄4 in (6.89 m) |
| Depth | 24.6 ft (7.5 m) |
| Decks | 1 |
| Installed power | triple-expansion engine + exhaust turbine; 390 NHP |
| Propulsion | 1 × screw |
| Speed | 12+3⁄4 knots (24 km/h) |
| Capacity | 264,250 cubic feet (7,483 m3) |
| Notes | sister ships: Bundaleer; Barwon |
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SS Barossa was a steam bulk carrier. She was built in Scotland in 1938 for the Adelaide Steamship Company of South Australia. In 1942 she was burnt out in the Japanese bombing of Darwin, but she was raised and repaired. In 1949 she was the focus of a watersiders' strike in Brisbane, which as a result is sometimes called the "Barossa strike".
In 1964, the Adelaide SS Co merged its interstate shipping fleet with that of with McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co, and Barossa was renamed Cronulla. Later that year she was sold, and registered in Hong Kong. In 1965 she was sold again, and registered under the Panamanian flag of convenience. In 1969 she was damaged by a typhoon. She was declared a total loss, and scrapped in Hong Kong.