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| | Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Wreck from 1929, TSS Kanowna, discovered in Bass Strait- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The ship was abandoned, by her 141 passengers, all taken off by SS Makarra who happened to be in the vicinity. |
 | | TSS Kanowna, 451 feet long, of 6,993 tons, with twin screws, was built in Scotland by W. Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton in 1902, to ply the Sydney- Fremantle route. |
 | | In August of 1914 she was requisitioned as a Trooper, and carried troops to New Guinea, next, she went off to England to be fitted out as a 452 bed Hospital ship. |
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