Mulcra IDNo 5201180

[Gordy Ross]

MULCRA
...shown here on the Yarra river Melbourne Vic Australia

Australian

Built 1925 - 76

1,168 gross tons.

Lbd: 215'7" x 34'2" x 13'6".

Built Svenberg Skbs & Msk, Svenborg as a cargo ship with limited passenger accomodation for this company. Engined by
Burmeister & Wain with service speed of 9 knots. Commissioned by the RAN & U S Forces as an armament stores carrier
1942-5.

Returned to civilian service 1946. Sold 1961 renamed La Trinidad. 1964 renamed Tasanee. 1973 renamed Andes.

1975 Veng-An. 1976 scrapped

Information gratefully supplied by John Hoskins: www.flotilla-australia.com/

Photo Credits: The late Allan Green Collection Vic Australia

My late father spent two or three different periods aboard this vessel

Cheers and GB

Gordy