Category:Truganini (ship, 1876)

English: TRUGANINI 203 gross tons, 130 net. Lbd: 120' X 20' X 9'. Iron passenger steamer built by Black & Noble, Montrose (Tasmania) for the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co., Hobart. December 1879 of G W & B B Nicoll, December 1880 G W Nicoll. 1881 April, James Burns (later of Burns Philp & Co) and 1882 transferred to Queensland Steam Shipping Co Ltd., registered London. April 1887 Australasian United Steam Navigation Co., Sydney. Since, had also been chartered by Burns Philp & Co working New Guinea. Whilst on the mail run to New Caledonia, she was wrecked February 11th, 1891 Aneityum, New Hebrides[1].