Territory Stories

SS Katoomba (0951)(0944)

Details:

Title

SS Katoomba (0951)(0944),

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Merchant Navy,

Service branch

Troopship, Cargo, Passenger,

Unit

SS Katoomba (0951)(0944),

Parent unit

McIlwraith and McEarchen,

Date arrived in NT

1941-04-21,

Date left the NT

1944-09-14,

Honours and awards

Battle Honour, Darwin 1942-1943,

History

Requisitioned as a troop ship in February 1942 during World War II. She was shelled by a submarine 300 miles from Albany, Western Australia on 4 August 1942. She had made 2 trips to Darwin.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, Australia, Cargo, Passengers, Troopship, SS Katoomba (0951)(0944),

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C248143 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph P01630.012, Second World War, 1939-1945], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/KASHIMA_TO_KING_ALFRED.pdf [SS Katoomba (0951)(0944) p.18-25], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=47209%22 [SS Katoomba (0951)(0944)],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843520,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843872