Territory Stories

SS Orungal (1524)(2379)

Details:

Title

SS Orungal (1524)(2379),

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

Cargo and Passenger Steamship, Troop Carrier,

Unit

SS Orungal (1524)(2379),

Parent unit

Khedival Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Company of Egypt under charter to Australasian United Steam Navigation Co Ltd.,

Date arrived in NT

1940-07-11,

Date left the NT

1940-07-16,

History

Requisitioned on 25 June 1940 to make one trip carrying 500 troops and their equipment to New Guinea. After leaving Port Moresby Orungal called into Darwin before returning to Sydney via Thursday Island, Rabaul, Salamua and Brisbane.,

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, Steamship, Troopship, SS Orungal (1524)(2379),

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/C250125 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 303745, Naval Historical Collection], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ORMISTON_TO_PELAW_MAIN.pdf [SS Orungal (1524)(2379) p.19-21], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=47394 [SS Orungal (1524)(2379)],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843561,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843876