HMAS Kuramia
Kuramia as built, c 1914
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History | |
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Australia | |
Name | Kuramia |
Owner | Sydney Ferries Limited |
Port of registry | Sydney |
Route | Circular Quay-Milsons Point |
Builder | David Drake, Balmain |
Launched | 15 November 1913 |
In service | 1914 |
Kuramia as a navy boom gate vessels
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Australia | |
Name | HMAS Kuramia |
Owner | Royal Australian Navy |
Commissioned | 20 February 1942 |
Decommissioned | December 1945 |
Identification | UK official number: 136383 |
Fate | Sunk as a target 10 October 1953 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Harbour ferry |
Tonnage | 353 GT |
Length | 156.5 ft (47.7 m) |
Beam | 33.2 ft (10.1 m) |
Propulsion | Triple expansion engine built by Mort's Dock, Balmain |
HMAS Kuramia was a Royal Australian Navy boom defence vessel, converted from a Sydney Ferries Limited K-class ferry.
History[]
Kuramia' was built by David Drake, Balmain for Sydney Ferries Limited, being launched on 15 November 1913. Her triple expansion engines were built by Mort's Dock, Balmain. She was operated on the Circular Quay to Milsons Point run.
In June 1925, she collided with Kulgoa.[1] On 1 February 1926, Kuramia collided with the steamer Wear and was badly damaged on the port side.[2]
Made redundant by the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932, she was sold in 1940 and her machinery was removed. Part of her machinery was fitted in Uralba. Her hull was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy in 1942 and she was converted to a boom defence vessel for use at Sydney Heads until the end of World War II.[3]
Fate[]
Her hulk was used as target by aircraft from HMAS Sydney off Sydney on 10 October 1953 and sunk.[3][4]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "FERRY SMASHES HAVE BEEN FREQUENT". Evening News. No. 18835. New South Wales, Australia. 4 November 1927. p. 15. Retrieved 27 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "FERRY SMASHES HAVE BEEN FREQUENT". The Evening News. No. 18835. New South Wales, Australia. 4 November 1927. p. 15. Retrieved 14 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b SS Kuramia Ferries of Sydney
- ^ "Commonwealth of Australia, Emergency Notice to Mariners". Sydney Morning Herald. 8 October 1953. p. 13. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
External links[]
- Media related to Kuramia at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 34°59′26″S 151°35′03″E / 34.990430°S 151.584120°E
- Boom defence vessels of the Royal Australian Navy
- Ferries of New South Wales
- Ferry transport in Sydney
- Scuttled vessels of New South Wales
- Ships built in New South Wales
- Wooden steamships of Australia
- 1913 ships
- Sydney K-class ferries