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Name: CORANGAMITE
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/04/1885
Completed: 06/1885
Builder: CS Swan & Hunter
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 90
Dimensions: 2420grt, 1562nrt, 300.0 x 40.1 x 19.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (23, 35 & 60 x 42ins), 290nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 91491
History:
27/06/1885 Huddart Parker & Co, Melbourne
06/12/1886 Wrecked
Comments: Sister to the BURRUMBEET
Accommodation for 100 x 1st & 80 x 2nd Class passengers
06/12/1886: Wrecked at East Point, Wreck Bay near Sydney
On a voyage from Melbourne to Sydney


Newcastle Courant, Friday, 17/04/1885