Wyreema

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The SS Wyreema (Maori for "Meeting Place of Three Rivers") was an Australian steamship. She was a passenger liner, who transported nurses to battle durring WWI.[1] She is reported to have "run down" and sunk the SS Currajong in 1910.[2][3]

[edit] Details

  • Owners: Australian United Steamship Navigation Company (A.U.S.N.)
  • Built: 1908 by A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Tonnage: 6,388 gross / 3,362 net.
  • Dimensions: 400 x 54 ft. (121.9 x 16.4 m).
  • Service Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h)
  • Engines: Triple Expansion.
  • Propulsion: Twin Screws.
  • Pronounced: 'why - REEM - ah'.
  • Broken Up: 1958, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sister Rosa O'Kane Grave, Woodman Point at thegardensfamily.com
  2. ^ The Wrecks of Sydney: SS Currajong at divesite.paroz.com
  3. ^ TSS Currajong at michaelmcfadyenscuba.info