Wyreema

The SS "Wyreema" (Maori for "Meeting Place of Three Rivers") was an Australian steamship. She was a passenger liner, who transported nurses to battle durring WWI. [ [http://www.thegardensfamily.com/Photos/WoodmanPoint/Pages/SisterRosaOkane1.htm Sister Rosa O'Kane Grave, Woodman Point] at thegardensfamily.com] She is reported to have "run down" and sunk the SS Currajong in 1910. [ [http://www.divesite.paroz.com/modx/bluebeyond-dive-ss-currajong.html The Wrecks of Sydney: SS Currajong] at divesite.paroz.com] [ [http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/viewpage.php?page_id=57 TSS Currajong] at michaelmcfadyenscuba.info ]

Details

*Owners: Australian United Steamship Navigation Company (A.U.S.N.)
*Built: 1908 by A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland.
*Tonnage: 6,388 gross / 3,362 net.
*Dimensions: 400 x 54 ft (121.9 x 16.4 m).
*Service Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h)
*Engines: Triple Expansion.
*Propulsion: Twin Screws.
*Pronounced: 'why - REEM - ah'.
*Broken Up: 1958, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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