DIMBOOLA Australian Dimboola 1912-1953. ON: 133505 IDNo: 1133505 Year: 1912 Name: DIMBOOLA Type: Passenger/cargo Flag: AUS Melbourne. Launch Date: 3.5.12 Date of completion: 7.12 Owner: Melbourne SS Co Ltd., AUS Melbourne. Builder: Swan, Hunter & W.R., Low Walker on Tyne. Yard No: 876 Link: 1489 Starke: V1912 #188 GRT: 3,854 LPP: 109.8 Beam: 15.3 1Q-13 knots. 1935 sold to Ho Hong SS Co. (1932) Ltd., GBR Singapore, r/n HONG SIANG 1951 sold to British Govt., GBR Hong Kong, r/n EMPIRE LONGFORD 1953 BU Dover 16.1.53 [Dover Industries] Thanks to Miramar Ship Index DIMBOOLA 3,886 gross tons, 2112 net. Lbd: 3602 x 501 x 236. single screw steamship built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle-on-Tyne as a passenger cargo vessel for the Melbourne Steamship Co Ltd. Of quadruple expansion engines = 350nhp with 3 single ended coal-fired boilers, 210psi. Serviced the Melbourne Fremantle trade. 1930 chartered out to Australasian United S N Co as a temporary replacement for their engine-troubled Orungal. 1932 serviced the east coast trunk line ports taking in North- west coast of Tasmania at the nadir of the loop up to Brisbane, Queensland. mid 1933 again placed on the Melbourne - Fremantle run until August 1935 when sold to Singapore interests and renamed Hong Siang. 1951 she had been operating under the auspices of Ministry Of War Transport UK until acquired outright 1952 and renamed Empire Longford. Scrapped in 1953 at Dover. Details: Mirimar Ship Index and John E. Hoskin, Flotilla Australia. Photo Credits: The Late Allan Green Collection Vic. Australia
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