Nestor
1913
(Wirral WL-17)
- Type: Passenger / general cargo
- Displacement: 14,629 tons
- Dimensions: 580 x 68-5 x 33 ft.
- Machinery: Steam reciprocating, 6600ihp, twin screws = 14 knots
- Passengers: 350 all first class
- Builder: Workman, Clark & Co Ltd, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1913
- Service: Nestor was built for Ocean Steamship Co Ltd, part of the Blue Funnel Line of Alfred Holt & Co. Maiden voyage 19 May 1913 Liverpool to Brisbane, with cargo loading at Glasgow and calls at Cape Town, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. In WW1 she served as a troop transport, helping move the Australian Expeditionary Force to Egypt and France. Resumed commercial service 22 Apr 1920. Passenger accommodation reduced in 1935 to 175 all first class. In 1936 she rescued the disabled Australian United's Mungana from drifting onto rocks at Cape Jaffa and towed her 170 miles to Adelaide. Her WW2 experience included transporting child evacuees to Australia. Her last sailing to Australia departed 23 Dec 1949. She was broken up at Faslane, Scotland, in 1950.
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