SS Waratah

SS Waratah was a British steamship of the Blue Anchor Line that carried passengers, cargo and mail between London and Sydney in the first decade of the twentieth century. Barclay, Curle and Company built her at the Clydeholm yard in Glasgow to a design credited to the line's managing director, Willie Lund, and she was launched on 12 September 1908. She was 465 feet long, steel hulled and driven by two quadruple expansion engines turning twin propellers, and her tall superstructure carried 128 first class and 160 third class passengers. On only her second voyage she disappeared on the night of 27 to 28 July 1909 somewhere between Durban and Cape Town, with 92 passengers and a crew of 119. No wreckage or remains have ever been found, and a Board of Trade inquiry convened in December 1910 examined her stability and construction.