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SS Kowarra was built in Sunderland in 1916 and was owned by Australian Steamships and operated by Howard Smith Limited off Sandy Cape (Q’ld). The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk 35 nmi north east of Sandy Cape, Queensland, Australia (-24.43333°N, 153.73333°W) by JAPANESE SUBMARINE I-26. Her Master, nineteen crewmen, and a gunner were killed. Eleven survivors were rescued by USS SC-747.

Ship description
The vessel was a steel single deck and the bridge ship with two masts. Its dimensions were:
 * Length from foredeck of stem to stern post: 270 ft
 * Main breadth to outside plank: 40 ft
 * Depth from uppermost continuous deck to bottom of the hold: 17 ft
 * Forecastle (F): 31 ft
 * Bridge deck (B): 55 ft
 * Quarter deck (QD): 85 ft
 * Poop (P): 21 ft

The vessel was complete with 4 cemented bulkheads

Displacement:
 * x
 * x

The vessel had a and a  when first manufactured.

Propulsion
Kowarra was powered by a Twin steel boiler producing 180 psi of steam pressure. the two Single-ended (SB) boilers each with 3 corrugated furnaces (cf) had a total of 118 square feet of Grate Surface (GS) and a total heating surface (HS) of 4236 square feet

This steam fed a triple-expansion steam engine built by George Clark of Sunderland. It had cylinders of 20.5 in, 33.5 in and 55 in bore by 39 in stroke, developed 242 NHP.

APT After peak tank 118T FPT Fore peak tank 87T

WWI Service
KOWARRA. Upon her completion in England in February, 1916, the Kowarra was requisitioned by the Admiralty and employed as a collier with the Grand Fleet. All her officers had served on the Australian coast before the war, but her crew was composed of British seamen signed on under naval articles for the duration of the war. She coaled American as well as British ships at Rosyth and Scapa Flow and in the Firth of Forth, among the latter being the Iron Duke, Tiger, Princess Royal, Indefatigable, Australia, Melbourne, and Sydney. During the whole of her war service until the surrender of the German Fleet, she never once encountered an enemy submarine. She was returned to her owners in May, 1919

APPENDIX No. 6. MERCHANT SHIPS EMPLOYED IN GOVERNMENT WAR-SERVICE https://d2uipk7udysvkd.cloudfront.net/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1069756--1-.pdf

Maiden voyage to the Pacific
India South Africa Trade http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/159600601?

Wreck location and wreckage
http://sunderlandships.com/view.php?ref=103259

http://archive.org/stream/n11shipbuildings06londuoft/n11shipbuildings06londuoft_djvu.txt

http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland076.html

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C249598?search

http://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+280/1/28/187

https://dmzapp17p.ris.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/file.do?key=1250

https://dmzapp17p.ris.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/file.do?key=1249

http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do;jsessionid=F228853F7280894F3DD2F3E17BC2742F?fn=search&ct=search&initialSearch=true&mode=Basic&tab=default_tab&indx=1&dum=true&srt=rank&vid=MAIN&frbg=&vl%28freeText0%29=KOWARRA&scp.scps=scope%3A%28ROSETTA_OAI%29%2Cscope%3A%28SLV_VOYAGER%29%2Cscope%3A%28SLV_DIGITOOL%29%2Cscope%3A%28SLVPRIMO%29&vl%281UIStartWith0%29=contains&vl%2810247183UI0%29=any&vl%2810247183UI0%29=title&vl%2810247183UI0%29=any

http://collections.anmm.gov.au/en/objects/details/82916/ss-kowarra

http://collections.anmm.gov.au/en/objects/details/74340/ss-kowarra?ctx=02cd2e40-1324-444e-90b8-cbe3afb3c8f0&idx=0

http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=169187.xml&dvs=1497239224411~587&locale=en_US&search_terms=&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=4&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true

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