SS Wollongbar (1911)

History

Name:	Wollongbar
Owner:	North Coast Steam Navigation Company
Builder:	Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon
Yard number:	229
Launched:	1911
Fate:	Wrecked on 14 May 1921
General characteristics
Displacement:	2,005 gross tons
Length:	285.2 ft (86.9 m)^[1]
Beam:	40.2 ft (12.3 m)
Draught:	23.8 ft (7.3 m)
Propulsion:	Triple expansion engine
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)

Wollongbar was a 2,005-ton passenger steamship built by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon in 1911 for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company.^[2]

Fate

She was wrecked at Byron Bay on 14 May 1921 after being blown aground during a gale at 28°38′14″S 153°36′37″E / 28.637086°S 153.610378°E / -28.637086; 153.610378Coordinates: 28°38′14″S 153°36′37″E / 28.637086°S 153.610378°E / -28.637086; 153.610378. Her wreck was broken up in situ.

Notes

↑ "ss Wollongbar (1911)". Clyde Built Ships Database. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
↑ "North Coast Steam Navigation Company". Flotilla Australia. Retrieved 27 September 2011.

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1921

Shipwrecks	3 Jan: UB-88 20 Jan: HMS K5 31 Jan: Carroll A. Deering January (unknown date): Baden, Hewitt 9 Feb: HMS Hydra 21 Feb: USS Woolsey 3 Mar: Hong Moh 4 Mar: Carroll A. Deering March (unknown date): USS Conestoga 13 May: Miztec 14 May: Wollongbar 23 May: USS Granite State 26 May: Esperanto 7 Jun: U-151, UC-97 21 Jun: USS G-1 22 Jun: U-177 24 Jun: HMS K15 26 Jun: Fitzroy 30 Jun: U-152, U-153 1 Jul: U-121 11 Jul: General Pershing 18 Jul: Frankfurt 21 Jul: Ostfriesland 22 Jul: U-140 16 Aug: Baden 3 Sep: Abessinia 26 Sep: USS R-6 27 Sep: USS Alabama 7 Oct: USS Herreshoff No. 321 8 Oct: Rowan 3 Nov: Carrier Dove 30 Nov: Guvernøren 1 Dec: USS DeLong 7 Dec: USS S-48 Unknown date: Equity, Rüsumat No 4, U-86, U-161, UB-122

Other incidents	29 Jan: España 18 Apr: Iron Monarch May (unknown date): USS R-14 8 Jul: Western Comet 19 Aug: King Orry

1920 1922

Shipwrecks and scuttled vessels of New South Wales

Shipwrecks by region

Richmond–Tweed	Adventure Agnes Enterprize Tassie III HMAS Waree SS Wollongbar I

Mid North Coast	Abbey Ability Absalom Acielle Admiral Gifford Adonis Advance Agnes Irving Edwin Fairwind SS Fingal Fitzroy Jane Kooroongaba Titan Crane Trial SS Wollongbar II

Hunter	Ability Acme Active (1850) Active (1877) Ada Ada and Ethel Adelaide Adolphe Advance Agnes Alhambra Bee The Bluebell Collision SS Catterthun SS Cawarra Contest Dundee Eleanor Lancaster Elizabeth Henrietta (1816) Estramina Excalibur Francis Governor Hunter Governor King Grecian Hope HMAS K9 Lindus Merksworth TSS Maianbar Norfolk SS Oakland Recovery MV Sygna Wendouree USS WST-1

Central Coast	Adelaide Advance SS Allenwood SS Bonnie Dundee Hazard Nimbin HMAS Paterson

Northern Sydney	Adelaide Aenid Argument Charlotte Narara HMAS Swan Tuncurry Whale Windsor

Sydney Eastern Suburbs	Agnes Colonist Dunbar Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe disaster PS Herald Hereward SS Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar HMAS Woomera

Southern Sydney	Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya

Illawarra	Adele Adolphus Agnes Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen of Nations Shockwave

Shoalhaven	Advance Aeolus Agnes Hive Koraaga Nancy HMAS Voyager Wandra

Far South Coast	George Iron Knight Olive Cam

Scuttled vessels

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