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The SS ''Barossa'' was a 4,239-gross register ton cargo ship built by
Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company The Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Limited was a major Scottish shipbuilding company based in Dundee, Scotland that traded for more than a century and built more than 500 ships. History W.B. Thompson CBE (1837 - 1923) founded t ...
, Dundee for the Adelaide Steamship Company in 1938. She was heavily damaged and sank as a result of damage suffered during the Japanese air raid on Darwin on 19 February 1942. She was salvaged and refloated. ''Barossa'' was transferred to Associated Steamships in January 1964, before being sold in May and renamed ''Cronulla''.


Fate

''Cronulla'' was damaged in a
typhoon A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, and is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth, accounting for a ...
. She was declared a total wreck and was scrapped in 1969 at Hong Kong.


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1938 ships Ships sunk in the bombing of Darwin, 1942 Merchant ships sunk by aircraft Adelaide Steamship Company {{Merchantship-stub