Category: Makarini (1912)
Categories: 1910s Ships | Ships by Name
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- Built in 1912 by Workman, Clark & Company at Belfast
NOTE: According to the His Majesty's Australian Transports (HMAT) Ships list on the Australian Light Horse Research (The Australian Light Horse Studies Centre) website:
- The SS Makarini weighed 10,624 tons with an average cruise speed of 13 knots or 24.07 kmph. It was owned by G.D.Tyser & Co, London. Accommodation for 750-steerage class passengers. Built by Workman, Clark & Co, Belfast, she was launched on 3rd Feb.1912. In 1914 Tyser's was taken over by the Commonwealth & Dominion Line (Port Line) and she was renamed SS Port Nicholson. Mined and sunk 15 miles West of Dunkirk 15 January1917. [Great Passenger Ships of the World by Arnold Kludas, vol.1, ISBN 0-85059-174-0, which contains a photo of the ship] [Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.21, Port Line]
- AWM244 PORT NICHOLSON - Cargo carrier movement card, 1914-18 War: SS PORT NICHOLSON Troopship and cargo carrier movement cards, 1914-18 War. © Copyright 2023 Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
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