SS Matunga explained

SS Matunga was a 1,618-gross register ton passenger-cargo ship, built by Napier and Miller, Glasgow for Mersey Steamship Co., Liverpool and originally named Zweena. Purchased by Burns Philp & Co. Ltd in 1910 for the British Solomon Islands service.[1] [2] Burns Philp was operating seven plantations in the Solomon Islands through subsidiaries - the Solomon Islands Development Company, the Shortland Islands Plantation Ltd and Choiseul Plantations Ltd.[3]

While en route from Sydney to Rabaul,[4] on 6 August 1917 she was captured by the German raiding ship . The coal was transferred to the Wolf, then time bombs were placed on the Matunga and she sank stern first near Waigeo Island.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Burns Philip . Hoskin . John E.. 2018 . Flotilla-Australia . 28 January 2021.
  2. Book: Lawrence . David Russell . The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific. October 2014. ANU Press . 9781925022032. 279. Chapter 9 The plantation economy . http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p298111/pdf/ch092.pdf.
  3. Book: Lawrence . David Russell . The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific. October 2014. ANU Press . 9781925022032. 270–281. Chapter 9 The plantation economy . http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p298111/pdf/ch092.pdf.
  4. Web site: Zweena SS (1900~1909) Matunga SS (+1917). 27 April 2008 . Wreck Site. 28 January 2021.
  5. Book: Guilliatt, Richard and Peter Hohnen . The Wolf that ravaged the Pacific . 3 May 2011. Free Press . 978-1416576112.

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