HMAS Kinchela

HMAS Kinchela (Z96) was an auxiliary boom gate vessel of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built in 1914 as a cargo vessel for the Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company.

HMAS Kinchela at Brisbane in 1944
History
Australia
Name: Tamban (1914–1915)
Kinchela (1915–??)
Owner: Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company (1914–1922)
North Coast Steam Navigation Company (1922–1936)
Builder: Morrison & Sinclair, Balmain
Launched: 1914
Completed: 1915
History
Australia
Name: HMAS Kinchela
Acquired: 28 August 1942
Fate: Sold in July 1946
General characteristics
Tonnage: 369 GT – Cargo vessel
209 GT – Boom vessel
111 GT – Lighter
Length: 145 feet (44 m)
Beam: 31 feet (9.4 m)
Draught: 11 feet (3.4 m)
Installed power: Two compound engines built by Mort's Dock, Balmain
Propulsion: Twin screw
Speed: 10 knots (max)

Built by Morrison & Sinclair, Balmain, as Tamban, for the Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company, she was launched in 1914. Her compound engines were installed by Wildridge and Sinclair, Balmain. She was operated on the Milson's Point run.[1] She was renamed Kinchela in October 1915. She collided with a lighter at Darling Harbour, Sydney on 25 June 1918.[2]

She was sold in 1922 to the North Coast Steam Navigation Company. She collided with Newcastle in Newcastle Harbour on 22 August 1922.[3] She ran aground on the spit at Port Macquarie, New South Wales in March 1933.[4] She was hulked in 1936 and her machinery was removed. Part of her machinery was fitted in Nambucca. Her hull was requisitioned by the RAN on 28 August 1942 and she was converted into an auxiliary boom gate vessel for use in the Brisbane River at Fort Lytton.[5] She was paid off for disposal in 1945 and while being towed to Sydney she almost sank.[6] She was sold in July 1946.

Notes
  1. "A New Steamer". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 February 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  2. "Collision in Darling Harbour". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 June 1918. p. 12. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  3. "Steamers Collide". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 August 1922. p. 14. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  4. "Steamer Kinchea, Aground On Spit". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 March 1933. p. 14. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  5. "RAN Station 9 Pinkenba, (also known as Myrtletown) Indicator Loop Station and Photo-electric Beam". www.ozatwar.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  6. "10 Hour Fight To Save Ship". Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania). 5 November 1945. p. 2. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
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