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Name: TARCOOLA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/01/1902
Completed: 02/1902
Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 137
Dimensions: 2647grt, 1677nrt, 326.0 x 45.4 x 21.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 38 & 61 x 42ins), 277nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 89450
History:
02/1902 Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd, Port Adelaide
1933 Australian Tramp Steamers Ltd, Hong Kong
1933 North China Steamship Co Ltd, Tientsin; renamed PEI AN
c1941 Under Japanese control, designated HOKUAN GO
No later history known
Comments: 1933: Employed in transporting Australian flour to Hong Kong
No trace since end of the war in 1945
1955: Deleted from Lloyd’s Register


Above photo as TARCOOLA copyright of the National Library of Australia

Above photo as TARCOOLA copyright of the South Australian Maritime Museum