Territory Stories

SS Zealandia

Details:

Title

SS Zealandia,

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, Passenger Steamship, Cargo Steamship,

Unit

SS Zealandia,

Parent unit

Huddart Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd.,

Date arrived in NT

1940-07-10,

Date left the NT

1942-02-19,

History

Requisitioned in 1940 the 'Zed' was the first passenger liner to carry a wireless telegraph and operated as a passenger ship on the Sydney-Fremantle run during peacetime. Used as a troop transporter for Sparrow Force on the Timor Ferry Service she made 7 journeys into Darwin. Zealandia was the last ship attacked and sunk on 19 February 1942. Jack Mulholland arrived in Darwin with the 14 Heavy Anti aircraft Battery on the Zealandia on 22 November 1940. Jack is the author of "Darwin bombed: an A/A gunner's reflections".,

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 Zealandia,

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/C42991 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 043177, Second World War, 1939-1945], http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=1509323 [Official Log Book of the SS Zealandia], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/WT70_TO_ZVIR.pdf [Zealandia SS p.146], http://www.flotilla-australia.com/huddart.htm#zealandia11-hp [Flotilla Australia - Huddart Parker & Co. - Zealandia], https://lant.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/951520605[Tom Lewis Collection 1989-1993], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=30635 [SS Zealandia],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843599,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843897