SS Wimmera explained
| -- commercial vessels --> | +| Ship Image: | SS Wimmera.jpg | | Ship Caption: | Painting of SS Wimmera by Charles Dickson Gregory |
| Ship Country: | Australia | | Ship Owner: | Huddart Parker & Co, Melbourne | | Ship Builder: |
| | Ship Yard Number: | 304 | | Ship Launched: | 19 August 1904 | | Ship Fate: | Sunk 26 June 1918 |
| Ship Type: | Passenger ship | | Ship Length: | 335.3feet | | Ship Beam: | 43.2feet | | Ship Propulsion: | triple expansion steam engine |
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SS Wimmera was a passenger
steamship that was built in 1904 by Caird & Company in
Greenock, Scotland, for
Huddart Parker & Co of Melbourne, Australia. She was sunk on 26 June 1918 by a German
mine north of
Cape Maria van Diemen, New Zealand, killing 26 passengers and crew.
At 10:00 am on 25 June 1918 the ship left Auckland, New Zealand, bound for Sydney, Australia, via Three Kings Islands. There were 76 passengers and 75 crew aboard. Her route was to take her north towards the Three Kings Islands where she would turn west and south toward Sydney. However, at 5:15 a.m. on 26 June 1918 she struck a mine laid by the German merchant raider and sank. The 16 Australian merchant seamen who were killed are commemorated by the Australian Merchant Seamen's Memorial at the Australian War Memorial.
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