Territory Stories

MV Tulagi (1909)(2670)

Details:

Title

MV Tulagi (1909)(2670),

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 steamship, Troop Transport,

Unit

MV Tulagi (1909)(2670),

Parent unit

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.,

Date arrived in NT

1940-01-12,

Date left the NT

1943-12-24,

History

Tulagi had left Darwin on the 14 February but returned on the 17 February and was in Darwin Harbour 19 February 1942. She left under escort by Lithgow on the 28 February. Tulagi also served as a USAT for a finite period and was mustered out in January/February 1944. She was back in British service when torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean by U-532 in late March 1944. Her survivors experienced a long and terrible ordeal before finally being rescued.,

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, Steamship, Troop transport, MV Tulagi (1909)(2670),

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/C251055 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 304079, Naval Historical Collection], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/TP_246_TO_ULYSSES.pdf [MV Tulagi (1909)(2670) p.66-72], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=31118 [MV Tulagi],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843588,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844062