SS Westralia, was a 1,819 ton Australian cargo and passenger ship. She served as a troopship in World War I and was later converted into a hulk and was sunk in the air raids on Rabaul on 20 January 1942. Launched in 1897 from the shipyards of Sir J Laing & Sons, Sunderland for the Melbourne-based Huddart Parker line. She served along the Australian coastline and the trans-Tasman route. In 1917, she was used as a troopship to transport the New Zealand 27th and 28th Main Regiment. She then resumed her commercial role with Huddart Parker.
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