SS Australasian (1884)

SS Australasian
History
United Kingdom
Name	SS Australasian
Owner	George Thompson & Company
Port of registry	Aberdeen
Builder	Robert Napier & Sons, Govan
Yard number	391
Launched	10 April 1884
Identification	Official No: 88859
Fate	Sold in 1906
Turkey
Name	SS Scham
Renamed	1907
Fate	Scrapped, 1955
General characteristics
Tonnage	3662 grt 2343 nrt
Length	361.6 feet (110.2 m)
Beam	44.2 feet (13.5 m)
Depth	21.3 feet (6.5 m)

SS Australasian, was built in 1884 by Robert Napier & Co of Govan, Glasgow for George Thompson & Son (Aberdeen Line).^[1] She weighed 4,000 long tons (4,100 t).^[2]

Australasian took part of the New South Wales Contingent to serve in Sudan with British forces as part of the Suakin Expedition, arriving at the Red Sea port of Suakin on 29 March 1885. In 1906 the Ottoman Government bought her and renamed her Scham. She was torpedoed by HMS E11 on 6 August 1915 in the Sea of Marmara. She was beached near Constantinople to prevent from sinking. Salvaged in 1918 she was reduced to a coal hulk. She was scrapped at Savona, Italy in 1955.^[1]