HMAT Zealandia
Zealandia off Port Davey, Tasmania in 1933
(Photograph by Henry Allport) |
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| Name: | Zealandia |
| Namesake: | New Zealand |
| Owner: | Huddart Parker |
| Port of registry: | Melbourne |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 392 |
| Launched: | 20 November 1909 |
| Completed: | May 1910 |
| In service: | 1910 |
| Out of service: | 1942 |
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| Nickname(s): | "Z" or "Zed" |
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| General characteristics | |
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| Length: | 410.3 feet (125.1 m) p/p |
| Beam: | 54.7 feet (16.7 m) |
| Draught: | 24 feet 2 inches (7.4 m) |
| Depth: | 23.4 feet (7.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,157 NHP |
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| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Troops: | 800 troops and 1,800 tons of supplies (typical, as troopship) |
| Crew: | 144 |
SS Zealandia, nicknamed "Z" (or "Zed"), was an historically significant Australian cargo and passenger steamship. She served as a troopship in both World War I and World War II. Zealandia transported the Australian 8th Division. Her crew were the last Allied personnel to see HMAS Sydney, which was lost with all hands in 1941. Zealandia was sunk in the air raids on Darwin of 19 February 1942.
John Brown & Company of Clydebank, Scotland built Zealandia for Huddart Parker & Co of Melbourne, launching her on 20 November 1909 and completing her in May 1910. She had 21 corrugated furnaces with a total grate area of 433 square feet (40 m2) heating seven single-ended boilers with a total heating surface of 17,775 square feet (1,651 m2). They supplied steam at 215 lbf/in2 to two four-cylinder quadruple expansion engines, each of which drove one of her twin screws.
In 1910–13 she was chartered by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, mainly for use on the trans-Tasman route, but also undertaking voyages to ports as distant as Fremantle and Vancouver. Huddart Parker then used Zealandia on the Melbourne – Fremantle route.
In May 1918 Zealandia was requisitioned as an Allied troopship. She was among the ships used to transport the American Expeditionary Force from the east coast of the USA to France. After the armistice she carried troops on the Liverpool – Sydney route. In 1919 she resumed her commercial role with Huddart Parker.
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