The 13,144 GRT steamship Baradine was the first of five sister ships built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast , Northern Ireland , in the early 1920s . It was launched on November 27, 1920 and was completed on August 18, 1921. In 1922 the other four ships followed one after the other. These were the Ballarat (III) (13,033 GRT), the Balranald (I) (13,039 GRT), the Bendigo (I) (13,039 GRT) and the Barrabool (13,148 GRT). These ships were built mainly for emigrant traffic and only had third class cabins for 491 people and 743 temporary places.
The 158.49 meter long and 19.50 meter wide passenger and cargo ship had a chimney, two masts and two propellers and could reach a speed of 13 knots. This was well below the 17.5 knots of the P&O steamers Narkunda and Naldera , which had recently been put into service and which had been built for the more upscale service.
The Baradine left London on September 22, 1921 on her maiden voyage to Melbourne and Sydney via Cape Town . An overhaul of the ship in 1929 increased the speed to 15 knots and switched from burning coal to fuel. On April 12, 1929, she drove to Melbourne and Sydney via Malta and Colombo . On March 13, 1936, the Baradine left for her last crossing. It was then sold to the British government, which in turn sold it for demolition to Dalmuir (Scotland), where it was scrapped in July 1936.
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