| Name: | DUNTROON |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 04/04/1935 |
| Completed: | 08/1935 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 1460 |
| Dimensions: | 10335grt, 6137nrt, 455.0 x 65.2 x 30.2ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Oil engines, 2SCSA, B&W type, 6cyl (450 x 1200mm), 1288nhp |
| Engines by: | JG Kincaid & Co Ltd, Greenock |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 18.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 159556 |
| History: | |
| 01/10/1935 | Melbourne Steamship Co Ltd; registered at Melbourne |
| 1960 | Grosvenor Shipping Co Ltd, Hong Kong |
| 1961 | Kie Hock Shipping Co Ltd, Hong Kong; renamed TONG HOO |
| 1963 | Palembang Shipping Co Ltd, Panama |
| 1965 | Africa Shipping Co Ltd, Panama |
| 1966 | Renamed LYDIA |
| 22/09/1968 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 261 x 1st & 115 x 2nd Class passengers |
| Designed for the Melbourne to Adelaide and Fremantle service | |
| 20/11/1940: Collided with & sank minesweeper HMAS GOORANGAI in | |
| Port Phillip Bay, with the loss of all 24 crew | |
| 02/1942: Requisitioned for troop ship duties | |
| 11/1943: Collided with & sank destroyer USS PERKINS | |
| 23/10/1950: Damaged by a fire whilst berthed at Melbourne. Subsequently repaired | |
| 1965: Used on the India & Pakistan to East Africa service | |
| 22/09/1968: Broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
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