Category:Minnipa (ship, 1927)

Ship[edit]

• Built by: Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Length: 77.1 m
• Beam: 12.2 m
• Draught: 6.7 m
• 1,977 gross tons
• 986 net.
• Main engine: Diesel engine - 2,700bhp
• Speed: 15 knots.

History[edit]

• 1927 Named: MINNIPA fot the Adelaide Steamship Co, an institution on the Adelaide - Port Lincoln run. For many decades, the Port Lincoln Division railway timetable was structured around the twice-weekly visits of the Minnipa to Port Lincoln.
• 1928.05.29 Running aground on Boston Island, off Port Lincoln
• 1960.06.29 Left Port Lincoln for the last time. She had sailed more than a million miles, made more than 3,300 round trips and carried over 525,000 passengers.
• 1963 Broken up in Hong Kong