| Name: | PORT DARWIN |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 13/02/1884 |
| Completed: | 04/1884 |
| Builder: | Andrew Leslie & Co |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 249 |
| Dimensions: | 2517grt, 1628nrt, 300.1 x 37.4 x 27.1ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (33 & 70 x 45ins), 350nhp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 89546 |
| History: | |
| 22/04/1884 | Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W Milburn & Co), London |
| 1892 | A Coote & JH Ridley, London |
| 1898 | Frederick Morgan, London |
| 1901 | Evan Morgan & Co, London |
| 15/11/1905 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 1st Class passengers and emigrants |
| 1892: The sale to Coote & Ridley, who were directors of Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, | |
| was in part-exchange for a new vessel PORT HUNTER | |
| 15/11/1905: Wrecked 3 miles off La Guardia, Vigo | |
| On a voyage from Honaine to Rotterdam with a cargo of minerals |
Above photo of sister ship PORT ADELAIDE is copyright of Ian Farquahar
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Monday, 18/02/1884