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Taroona, c. 1951
History
Australia
Name
Taroona
Namesake
Taroona, Tasmania
Owner
Tasmanian Steamers
Builder
Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow
Yard number
543
Launched
22 November 1934
Completed
January 1935
Out of service
1959
Greece
Name
Hellas
Namesake
Hellas (Greece)
Owner
Typaldos Lines
Port of registry
Piraeus
Acquired
1959
Identification
IMO number: 5147011
Fate
Scrapped at Aliağa in 1989.
General characteristics
Tonnage
4325 grt
Length
354 feet 7 inches (108.08 m)
Beam
50 feet 1 inch (15.27 m)
Draught
15 feet 1 inch (4.60 m)
Propulsion
6 steam turbines single reduction geared to 2 screw shafts 6000shp. 3 water tube boilers fitted to burn oil
Speed
16 knots, top speed 18 knots
SS Taroona was built in Linthouse, Glasgow by Alexander Stephen & Sons for Tasmanian Steamers, Australia. She was a steam turbine ship capable of 18 knots, but typically operated at 16 knots for better fuel economy.
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work in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1949. From early 1950, the family lived in Taroona, a suburb of Hobart, where Durham attended the Fahan School before moving...
Moonah and Blackmans Bay State Schools, completed his high schooling at Taroona High School and matriculated in one year at Hobart Matriculation College...
announced that it would be withdrawing from the Bass Strait. Its ship the Taroona was becoming totally inadequate, only being able to carry 30 cars, which...
Western Australia from the 2008 state election until 2017. Abetz studied at Taroona High School, Hobart Matriculation College and the University of Tasmania...
ferry services in the Mediterranean and Greek islands. In 1966 the ferry SS Heraklion sank in the Aegean Sea and over 200 passengers and crew members...
for Port Moresby, New Guinea, in company with the Australian troop ship Taroona, along with Convoy Q2 comprising two cargo ships Anshun and 's Jacob, escorted...
permanent daylight saving time 1970: State marine research laboratories at Taroona open 1970: Electrolytic Zinc Company opens $6 million residue treatment...
Sugar Corporation Ltd. William Ellis Wiggins, Chief Engineer Officer, MV Taroona, Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd. James Hugh Wilkinson, Chief...
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