BuilderClyde Shipbuilding & Engineering CoWhere BuiltPort GlasgowDate Built1927Tonnage2047 GRTPropulsionSingle screw steamOwners & Previous Names1927-30 R S Lamb (Kalingo Steamship Co) Sydney
1930-43 USSCoAdditional NotesUnion Company purchased KALINGO when 3 years old and it proved a useful ship on the trans Tasman trade until torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I21 on 18 January 1943 about 110 miles east of Sydney when on passage Sydney to New Plymouth with loss of two crew.
New Zealand Ship and Marine Society (21st Aug 2019). KALINGO 1930-1943. In Website New Zealand Ship and Marine Society. Retrieved 18th Jan 2021 00:53, from https://nzshipmarine.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/212