River Burnett partially sunk in Port Phillip in 1955
History
Name
1947: River Burnett
1965: Ionic Coast
1967: Ilissos
Namesake
1947: Burnett River
1965: Ionia
1967: Ilisos
Owner
1947: Australian Shipping Board
1957: Australian Coastal Shipping Commission
1965: Australine Shipping Co
1967: Devon Steamship Co
1973: DL Wirth Corp
Port of registry
1947: Brisbane
1965: Monrovia
Ordered
22 January 1943
Builder
Evans Deakin & Company, Brisbane
Laid down
2 November 1944
Launched
June 1946
Completed
November 1946
Identification
1947: UK official number 179033
1947: call sign VLGS
IMO number 5297127
Fate
Scrapped 1973
General characteristics
Class and type
"A"-class cargo ship
Tonnage
1947: 6,660 GRT, 3,908 NRT
1956: 5,183 GRT, 2,878 NRT, 8,525 DWT
Length
499 ft 1 in (152.12 m)
Beam
56 ft 8 in (17.27 m)
Draught
35 ft 8+1⁄2 in (10.9 m)
Depth
24 ft 6+1⁄2 in (7.5 m)
Decks
1 + shelter deck
Propulsion
1 × screw
1 × triple expansion engine
1 × low pressure steam turbine
Speed
12 knots (22 km/h)
Crew
46
Sensors and processing systems
wireless direction finding
echo sounding device
SS River Burnett was a cargo steamship that was built in Queensland in 1946 and scrapped in Taiwan in 1973. She was a member of the "A"-class of standard cargo ships built for the Australian Shipbuilding Board between 1943 and 1947.
In 1955 River Burnett became notable as the first ship ever to survive hitting Corsair Rock in Port Phillip, Victoria. Numerous ships have been lost after hitting Corsair Rock. River Burnett succeeded in getting off the rock under her own power, but afterward her bow sank to the seabed. Her stern remained afloat, and a seven-week salvage operation succeeded in raising her.
River Burnett was successfully repaired, and gave many more years of service. In 1965 she was flagged out to Liberia and renamed Ionic Coast. In 1967 she was renamed again as Ilissos. She was scrapped in 1973 in Kaohsiung.
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