Kanowna
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The
steamer Kanowna was laid down at Dumbarton in Scotland,
and was launched in 1903. She was rigged as a three masted
schooner, and had a steam engine, quite typical of its
time. She entered service for the company 0Australian
United Steam Navigation company as a liner between
Freemantle and Sydney. She was requisitioned in June 1915
by the British Admiralty and and served as a troop
transport and hospital ship in the Great War. She was
returned to her owners in 1919. Under a voyage from Cairns
to Melbourne she ran aground on an uncharted rock outside
Wilson Promontory 8.February 1929. This rock is called
Skull rock today. Orders to abandon ship was given, and
she was abandoned. Later she drifted off the rock, and
sank later in "deep waters" in Bass Strait. In April 2005
the wreck was found by divers from Southern Ocean
Exploration, and she rest today on a depth of 74 to 80
meter.
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 Picture: Kanowna Courtesy of State Library South Australia  Last updated: February 2020 |
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