Warrimoo
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History | |
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Name | Warrimoo |
Namesake | Warrimoo, NSW |
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Port of registry | |
Builder | Swan, Hunter, Wallsend |
Yard number | 175 |
Launched | 28 May 1892 |
Completed | July 1892 |
Maiden voyage | 30 July 1892 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sank after collision with Catapulte |
General characteristics | |
Type | passenger and refrigerated cargo ship |
Tonnage | 3,326 GRT, 1,879 NRT |
Length | 345 ft (105 m) registered length |
Beam | 42.2 ft (12.9 m) |
Depth | 25.1 ft (7.7 m) |
Installed power | 722 NHP |
Propulsion | 3-cylinder triple-expansion engine |
Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) |
Notes | sister ship: Miowera |
SS Warrimoo was a passenger and refrigerated cargo liner that was launched in 1892 in England for Australian owners, was later owned by two of New Zealand's foremost shipping companies, and finally belonged to a Singaporean company.
Warrimoo was the subject of a claim that she crossed the intersection of the International Date Line and the Equator precisely at the turn of the year from 1899 to 1900.
Warrimoo was a troop ship in the First World War. In 1918 the French destroyer Catapulte collided with Warrimoo in the Mediterranean. In the collision some of Catapulte's depth charges broke loose and fell into the sea, where they detonated and sank both ships.