.jpg) Duntroon
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| Name | Duntroon |
| Owner | Melbourne Steamship Company |
| Port of registry | Melbourne |
| Builder | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Walker |
| Yard number | 1460 |
| Launched | 4 April 1935 |
| Completed | August 1935 |
| In service | 1935 |
| Out of service | 1942 |
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| Fate | Requisitioned by Army |
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| In service | 1942 |
| Out of service | 1949 |
| Fate | Returned to civilian service |
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| Fate | Scrapped 1968 |
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| Type | passenger ship |
| Tonnage | 10,346 GRT, 6,137 NRT |
| Length | 455.0 ft (138.7 m) |
| Beam | 65.2 ft (19.9 m) |
| Depth | 30.2 ft (9.2 m) |
| Installed power | 1,288 NHP |
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| Capacity | 373 passengers |
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MV Duntroon was a passenger motor ship built for the Melbourne Steamship Company, that saw military service as a troopship between 1942 and 1949. She was built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, and entered service in 1939.
At the start of World War II, Duntroon was requisitioned for conversion into an armed merchant cruiser, but was returned as unsuitable. In November 1940, Duntroon collided with and sank the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Goorangai; the RAN's first loss of the war. In February 1942, Duntroon was requisitioned by the Australian Army for use as a troopship. The ship was involved in a second fatal collision in November 1943, sinking the destroyer USS Perkins. Her army service continued until 1946, when she was chartered by the RAN for transport duties with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force.
Duntroon was returned to her civilian owners in 1950. In 1961, the ship was sold to Kie Hock Shipping Co. and renamed Tong Hoo. She was sold again in 1966 to Africa Shipping Co. and renamed Lydia. The ship was laid up in Singapore in 1967, and sailed to Taiwan for scrapping in 1968.