Iron Crown (B.H.P.)
On 4 June 1942, Iron Crown , laden with iron ore, was off Cape Howe, near the Victoria/New South Wales border. Torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I.27, she sank quickly. Of her crew of forty-two, thirty-eight perished.
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Iron Chieftain (B.H.P.)
En route on the night of 3 June 1942 from Newcastle to Whyalla, Iron Chieftain was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I.24. Her Master and Chief Engineer were among the twelve crew lost. The thirty-seven survivors were rescued, some from a raft, by HMAS “Bingera”, and others from a lifeboat washed onto the beach at The Entrance, New South Wales.
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Orungal (A.U.S.N.)
Orungal was requisitioned in June 1940 for a single trooping voyage.
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Ormiston (A.U.S.N.)
Ormiston undertook periodic war-oriented voyages from 1940 to 1942, including in 1940 trooping to Darwin and in December 1941 taking a Main Roads Department airfield construction team to Noumea. Off the New South Wales coast near Coffs Harbour on 12 May 1943, she was struck by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine and suffered major hull damage. Temporary repairs at Coffs Harbour were followed by a slow voyage to Sydney where repairs were completed early in 1944. Trooping on the coast followed until July 1946 and hand-back to the owners.
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Murada (A.U.S.N.)
Murada was the target of an unsuccessful submarine torpedo attack off Crowdy Head, New South Wales, on 24 July1942.
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