Category:IMO 5385986

**MS Wanganella**
	passenger liner built in 1932
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Instance of	hospital ship;
Manufacturer	Harland and Wolff;
Location of creation	Belfast;
Yard number	849;
Shipping port	Melbourne;
Country of registry	Australia;
Service entry	1932;
Beam	19 m;
Draft	7.6 m;
Length	144.5 m;
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	Q2548288; IMO ship number: 5385986
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Laid down as Achimota for The Royal Mail Group
09.1932 Sold to Huddart Parker for their Australian/New Zealand services
12.01.1933 Entered service as Wanganella Flag: Australia
28.12.1937 Collided with a trawler off the coast of New South Wales.
19.06.1940 Assisted with the rescue of passengers from the RMS Niagara, after the latter hit a mine and sank off the coast of Auckland.
1941 Converted to hospital ship. Renamed: Australian Hospital Ship AHS Wanganella
19.06.1941 Started to carry wounded and sick evacuees from the Middle East, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Borneo and the South Pacific
1946 Returned to her civilian operator
19.01.1947 Struck Barrett Reef, while making her first trans-Tasman voyage after the war, and stuck fast. For 18 days the ship spent on the reef. No-one was injured, and the passengers were taken off the ship the morning after the accident. The damage she incurred put her out of service for twenty-two months, mainly as a result of industrial action while she was laid-up in a floating dock for repairs.
1960 Sold to scrap metal dealer Albert G Sims, and went to Sigapore for scrapping. Due to a drop in scrap metal prices the ship returned to service
1963 Laid-up at Doubtful Sound, NZ as an accommodation ship for workers
04.1970 Towed to Taiwan
05.06.1970 Broken up in Kaohsiung

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