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Kaludah (launched as Kuranda) was a "K-class" ferry on Sydney Harbour. Commissioned in 1909, the timber-hulled steamer was built for Sydney Ferries Limited during the boom in cross-harbour ferry travel prior to the 1932 opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Like the other "K-class" ferries, she was double-deck, double-ended, steam-powered screw ferry. However, she and the larger but otherwise similar Kookooburra (1907), were the only two K-class ferries designed by naval architect Walter Reeks and not Sydney Ferries Limited Captain Summerbell.
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Name | Kaludah |
Operator | Sydney Ferries Limited |
Builder | Morrison and Sinclair, Balmain |
Cost | £12,000[1] |
Launched | 1908 as Kuranda[2] |
In service | 1909 as Kaludah |
Out of service | 1911 |
Fate | burnt out and sank |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 137 tons |
Length | 35.1 m |
Beam | 7.6 m |
Installed power | 50 hp triple expansion steam |
Propulsion | double-ended screw |
Speed | 12 knots |
Capacity | 600 (est)[2] |
Kaludah was built by Morrison and Sinclair Limited of Balmain. She was launched in late 1908 as Kuranda and commissioned the following year and her name changed to Kaludah.
Kaludah was burnt out and sank near Gladesville in 1911 when she was still the newest ferry in the Sydney Ferries Limited fleet.[3] She is one of the shortest lived of Sydney's ferries.