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SS Arkaba (1924)

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
name	*Arcoona (1924-1925)
namesake	Arkaba - Aboriginal word for underground waters
owner	*Adelaide Steamship Company, Sydney (1924-1952)
builder	William Beardmore & Company, Dalmuir, Scotland
yard_number	630
launched	6 March 1924
fate	Scrapped at Hong Kong in 1959.
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
type	Cargo ship
tonnage	,
length	341.6 ft
beam	47.2 ft
draught	30.3 ft
propulsion	Triple expansion engine

Arkaba (1925-1954)
William Charlick IV (1954-1959)
William Charlick Ltd, Hong Kong (1953-1957)
Indian & Pacific Ocean Merchants, Rabaul (1957-1959)

'*SS Arkaba''' was a 4,214 gross register ton cargo vessel built by William Beardmore & Company, Dalmuir, Scotland for the Adelaide Steamship Company as Arcoona. She was renamed Arkaba in 1925. She was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II between 26 August and 31 October 1940, as a coal and stores carrier. She became stranded on a reef on 19 February 1952 off Port Lincoln, South Australia. She was sold and during being towed to Hong Kong, broke her towline in huge seas and floated at the mercy of the waves and current, until reattached to a tugboat. Refitted in Hong Kong and sold in 1954 to William Charlick Ltd, Hong Kong and renamed *William Charlick IV'', before being sold to Indian & Pacific Ocean Merchants, Rabaul in 1957.

Fate

She was scrapped in Hong Kong in 1959.

References

"ss ''Arcoona''". Clydebuiltships.
"Lloyd's Register 1943-44". plimsollshipdata.
"Freighter holed on reef in S.A.". The Canberra Times, Wednesday 20 February 1952, p.1..
"Arkaba adrift in heavy seas". The Mail (Adelaide), Saturday 18 July 1953, p.4..

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