SS Makambo
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 Makambo at anchor | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Makambo |
| Owner | Burns Philp & Co. Ltd |
| Builder | Clyde Shipbuilding Company, Port Glasgow |
| Yard number | 273 |
| Launched | 16 March 1907 |
| In service | 1907 |
| Out of service | 12 June 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk off Phuket 12 June 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 1,159 GRT |
| Length | 210.3 ft (64.1 m) |
| Beam | 31.4 ft (9.6 m) |
| Installed power | Triple expansion engine |
SS Makambo was a steamship first owned by Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. She was built in Port Glasgow in Scotland and named after an island in the Solomon Islands. She carried both passengers and cargo and was principally used on routes between eastern Australia and islands in Melanesia and the Tasman Sea. In November 1908 Jack and Charmian London travelled from Guadalcanal to Sydney on the Makambo after abandoning their ill-fated circumnavigation of the world on the Snark, a 45-foot (14 m) sailing yawl.
Between 1910 and 1931, she travelled a regular route between Sydney and Port Vila in the New Hebrides, with stops at Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.[1] On 1 August 1921, Makambo's captain sent, by radio, the first report that flotsam from the missing cargo steamer SS Canastota had washed ashore at Lord Howe Island.[2]
She was acquired in 1939 by Okada Gumi KK of Osaka, Japan, and renamed Kainan Maru. She was torpedoed and sunk on 12 June 1944 by the British submarine HMS Stoic off Phuket, Thailand.[3]
