This page provide an overview of the ss Wimmera‘s specifications and other details.
Courtesy of State Library Victoria
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/28974
| Type | Schooner-rigged Steel Single Screw Passenger Steamer |
| Displacement | 3022 tons |
| Length | 335 feet |
| Beam | 43 feet |
| Builder | Caird & Co., Greenock, Scotland |
| Launched | Monday 15 August 1904 |
| Cost | £71,000 |
| Owner | Huddart Parker Limited |
| Home port | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Crew | 75 |
| Fate | Sunk on morning of 26 June 1918 after striking a mine laid by the German raider Wolf |
| Location of wreck | 34° 11’S 172° 42’E |
| Passengers on final voyage | 76 |
| Passenger casualties | 10 |
| Passengers saved | 66 |
| Crew on final voyage | 75 |
| Crew casualties | 16 |
| Crew saved | 59 |
| Total saved | 125 |
| Total lost | 26 |
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