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Remains of the wooden twin-screw steamer “SS Allenwood” wrecked on Bird Island Beach N.S.W. c. 1960
This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced for other purposes without the prior permissions of Great Lakes Museum. Original images held at Great Lakes Museum The remains of the twin-screw steamer “SS Allenwood” built by Ernest Wright for Allen Taylor and Co. wrecked on Bird Island Beach, near Budgewoi N.S.W. The vessel was wrecked on 14 September 1951 and was originally intact until being burnt by vandals in about 1958.

Vessel details
Name: Allenwood
Owner: Allen Taylor & Co. Ltd., Sydney
Builder: Ernest Wright Shipyard, Tuncurry N.S.W.

Nationality: Australian
Purpose: transport
Type: cargo
Subtype/class: coastal cargo
Propulsion: steam
Date built: 1920
Status:

Weight: 398 gross tonnage
Length: 147ft
Beam: 35ft
Depth: 8.2ft
Engine: fitted with one engine and one boiler by Ross & Duncan, Glasgow, each dated 1898. One engine by Melbourne Coal & Shipping Co. 1889, one boiler by Brock & Buchanan, Melbourne 1908.

Armament: 1 x 12 pounder gun, 1 x 20mm Oerlikon cannon, 1 x .303-inch Vickers machine gun

Career
Name: HMAS Allenwood
Owner:
Acquired 27 July 1941
Commissioned: 16 September 1941
Decommissioned: 31 November 1944

Fate: Beached upon Bird Island Beach, N.S.W. and broken up insitu
Cause:
Date: 14 September 1951
Casualties:

This vessel was fitted with one engine and one boiler by Ross & Duncan, Glasgow, each dated 1898. One engine by Melbourne Coal & Shipping Co. 1889, one boiler by Brock & Buchanan, Melbourne 1908.
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The remains of the twin-screw steamer “SS Allenwood” built by Ernest Wright for Allen Taylor and Co. wrecked on Bird Island Beach, near Budgewoi N.S.W. The vessel was wrecked on 14 September 1951 and was originally intact until being burnt by vandals in about 1958.