SS Wollongbar (1911)

Coordinates: 28°38′14″S 153°36′37″E / 28.637086°S 153.610378°E

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History

Name	Wollongbar
Owner	North Coast Steam Navigation Company
Builder	Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon
Yard number	229
Launched	1911
Fate	Wrecked on 14 May 1921
General characteristics
Tonnage	2,005 GRT
Length	285.2 ft (86.9 m)^[1]
Beam	40.2 ft (12.3 m)
Draught	23.8 ft (7.3 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion engine
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)

SS Wollongbar was a 2,005-ton passenger steamship built by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon in 1911 for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company.^[2]

Fate

She was wrecked at Byron Bay on 14 May 1921 after being blown aground during a gale at 28°38′14″S 153°36′37″E / 28.637086°S 153.610378°E / -28.637086; 153.610378. Her wreck was broken up in situ.

Notes

^ "ss Wollongbar (1911)". Clyde Built Ships Database. Archived from the original on 6 August 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
^ "North Coast Steam Navigation Company". Flotilla Australia. Retrieved 27 September 2011.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1921
Shipwrecks	3 Jan: UB-88 6 Jan: USS Coast Defense Battleship No. 2 20 Jan: HMS K5 31 Jan: Carroll A. Deering January (unknown date): SMS Baden, HMS Europa, Hewitt 9 Feb: HMS Hydra 21 Feb: USS Woolsey 3 Mar: Hong Moh 4 Mar: Carroll A. Deering 13 Mar: Leonita March (unknown date): USS Conestoga 13 May: Miztec 14 May: Wollongbar 23 May: USS Granite State 26 May: Esperanto 7 Jun: U-151, UC-97 21 Jun: USS G-1 22 Jun: U-177 24 Jun: HMS K15 26 Jun: Fitzroy 30 Jun: Mopang, U-152, U-153 1 Jul: U-121 11 Jul: General Pershing 13 Jul: SMS G102 15 Jul: V43 18 Jul: Frankfurt 21 Jul: Ostfriesland 22 Jul: U-140 16 Aug: Baden 26 Aug: City of Brunswick 3 Sep: Abessinia 26 Sep: USS R-6 27 Sep: USS Alabama 7 Oct: USS Herreshoff No. 321 8 Oct: Rowan 3 Nov: Carrier Dove 30 Nov: Guvernøren 1 Dec: USS DeLong 7 Dec: USS S-48 30 Dec: HMS Prince George Unknown date: Equity, Rüsumat No 4, U-86, U-161, UB-122
Other incidents	29 Jan: España 18 Apr: Iron Monarch May (unknown date): USS R-14 8 Jul: Western Comet 19 Jul: Submarine No. 24 27 Jul: Animoso 17 Aug: Maurice Callot 19 Aug: King Orry 29 Aug: Maurice Callot Unknown date: USLHT Azalea
1920 1922

Shipwrecks and scuttled vessels of New South Wales

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Richmond–Tweed	Adventure Agnes Enterprize SS Friendship Tassie III HMAS Waree SS Wollongbar
Mid North Coast	Abbey Ability Absalom Acielle Acme Ada and Ethel Admiral Gifford Adonis Advance (wr.1933) Agnes Irving SS Catterthun Edwin MV Fairwind SS Fingal Fitzroy Governor Hunter Jane HMAS K9 Kalang Kooroongaba Titan Trial Wanganui SS Wollongbar
Hunter	Ability Active (1850) Active (1877) Ada Adelaide Adolphe Advance (1884) Agnes Alhambra Bee The Bluebell Collision SS Cawarra SS Colonist Contest Dundee Eleanor Lancaster Elizabeth Henrietta Estramina Excalibur Fido Francis Gertrude Governor King Grecian Hope SS Lindus Merksworth TSS Maianbar Norfolk SS Oakland Recovery MV Sygna Wendouree USS WST-1
Central Coast	Adelaide Advance HMAS Allenwood SS Bonnie Dundee Hazard Henri PSS Maitland MV Nimbin HMAS Paterson
Northern Beaches	Adelaide Aenid Argument Charlotte M24 Japanese Midget Submarine SS Myola Narara Queen Bee HMAS Swan Tuncurry Whale Windsor
Sydney Eastern Suburbs	Agnes Colonist Dunbar Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe PS Herald Hereward Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi SS Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar HMAS Woomera
Southern Sydney	Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya
Illawarra	Adele Adolphus Agnes SS Bombo Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen of Nations Shockwave
Shoalhaven	Advance Aeolus Agnes Hive Koraaga Nancy HMAS Voyager Wandra
Far South Coast	Dureenbee George Iron Knight Ly-ee-Moon Olive Cam

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