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SS Bombo
Coastal steamer SS Bombo in 1939
History
NameBombo
OwnerState Metal Quarries, NSW
BuilderH. Robb, Leith
Launched18 December 1929
FateCapsized and sank off Port Kembla, NSW, 22 Feb 1949
NotesSold to Quarries Pty Ltd, Feb 1935
General characteristics
TypeSteel-hulled coastal freighter
Tonnage540 GRT
Length154 feet (47 m)
Beam30 feet (9.1 m)
Draught12 feet (3.7 m)
Installed powerSteam
Crew14

The SS Bombo was a coastal freighter which foundered on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia in February 1949 with the loss of twelve of her fourteen crew. Built in Scotland in 1929, the SS Bombo was sailed to Australia to carry blue metal (basalt aggregate) from the town of Kiama to the port of Sydney. During World War II she was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy and served as a minesweeper and a stores carrier in the Pacific Theatre to the north of Australia.

She capsized during a heavy southerly gale off Port Kembla while steaming from Kiama with a load of blue metal, and her wreck, close to the main harbour entrance, is a popular dive location. A memorial to the vessel and her lost crew stands on Black Beach, Kiama, overlooking the harbour where she made her final departure on 24 February 1949.

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