SS Australasian (1884)
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SS Australasian
The sail and steamship Australasian, was built in 1884 by Rovert Napier & Co of Govan, Glasgow for George Thompson & Son (Aberdeen Line).[1] She weighed 4,000 long tons (4,100 t).[2] In 1906 the Ottoman Government bought her and renamed her Scham. In 1918 she was reduced to a hulk. She was scrapped at Savona in Italy in 1955.[1]
Notes
- 1 2 "John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland". Retrieved September 2015. Check date values in:
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(help) - ↑ Froude 2010, p. 19.
References
- Froude, James Anthony (2010) [1886], Oceana, Or, England and Her Colonies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 19, ISBN 9781108023900
Further reading
- "The S.S. Australasian", The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 1884
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