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Project Objective: To locate, positively identify and report on the SS Paringa.
Ship History: Steel steamship of 1359 tons. Built in Kinghorn, Scotland, 1908 for the Adelaide Steamship Company. Lbd 230.2 x 36.1 x 13.9ft. She had been laid up in Port Adelaide until sold to Chinese interests in 1935, when her register as a British ship closed.
In late December 1935, whilst towing the old tanker Vincas out of Western Port, the ships met a gale off Wilsons Promontory. When the line parted the Paringa disappeared in the darkness and apparently foundered in Bass Strait shortly after, taking five European officers and twenty six Chinese crewmen to their deaths.
The Vincas, with a skeleton crew of four Chinese aboard, drifted toward the Gippsland coast and dropped anchor near Lakes Entrance. The depth of the Paringa is unknown.
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