SS ''Barcoo'' was a 1,505 gross register ton passenger ship built by

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, Dumbarton in 1885 for the

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. She was transferred upon merger of parent company to the

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in 1857. She was hulked in 1911 and requisitioned by the

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in 1914 and utilised as a coal hulk in

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Fate

''Barcoo'' was scuttled by naval gunfire on 1 February 1924 off Sydney Heads in the Sydney Disposal Area.

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