S.S. Bendigo 1927 UK to Australia

[hanes teulu]

This advert appeared widely in newspapers March/early April 1927

P & O  One Class Only  Australia via the Cape
£21 and upwards to Cape Town
£37 and upwards to Australia

Next sailings from London - Bendigo ... April 28

[hanes teulu]

The Scotsman, 6 May 1927
BENDIGO, for Sydney, called Las Palmas 4.

[majm]

There were 49 Dreadnought Boys on that voyage.   
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78901763 and the lads are noted in this cutting from the Perth WA newspaper The Daily News of 6 June 1927.  The lads disembarked Sydney. 

The vessel docked at No. 8 Wharf, Walsh Bay, Darling Harbour, Sydney  (newspaper cutting is hard to read) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16390117  SMH 25 June 1927.

Recent photos http://www.waterway.com.au/projects/heritage-restoration/walsh-bay-wharf-8-9-restoration    (No. 1 Walsh Bay is nearest the Harbour Bridge, and they then are 2 and 3 (so both sides are separate numbers); 4 and 5;  6 and 7; 8 and 9.  etc.

JM

[Dundee]

Here is the passenger list with the GILL family on the SS Bendigo.  It is freely available from the National Archives of Australia as are almost all of the passenger lists for ships whose first port of call was Fremantle in Western Australia.   http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/11552411/1

Other documents for the voyage are here, including the welfare officer's report which starts on page 34.

http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/414392/1

Debra 

[seaweed]

BENDIGO Official number 145603 only made one return voyage UK-Australia-UK in 1927.
It was usual that she sailed outward via Las Palmas, the Cape-Durban-Columbo.
hanes teulu has outlined her progress from newspaper reports. If you still need it the Logbook of BENDIGO for that voyage, 27 April 1927 - 6 September 1927. is in the British National Archive.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6000172

[hanes teulu]

Seaweed,
Good to hear from you. Perhaps you can explain something that puzzled me re. tracking via the papers?
The Bendigo arrived 4 May Las Palmas (Teneriffe?) and I cannot find date of departure. Nonetheless, struck me as quite a time lapse to arrive Table Bay 20 May.

Does it look right to you - any thoughts?/

regards

[seaweed]

Hello hanes teulu,
Basically, it depends on how fast she was travelling.
Its 5288 Nautical miles from Las Palmas, Grand Canaria to Cape Town. Assuming she only bunkered in Las Palmas and sailed the next day, if she was travelling at an economic speed of 15 knots. 15 days would be about right.
The only way to get a totally accurate figure is to consult pages 4 and 5 of the ships logbook. This will tell you to the minute what time she arrived and departed any particular port.

regards SW

[hanes teulu]

Seaweed,

Diolch

[seaweed]

hanes teulu

Croeso