BALLARAT

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. 1911 Nov.1: Maiden voyage to Australia via the Cape, in a record 37½ days. 1914: Hospital ship, 1916: Troopship, 1917 Apr.25: Torpedoed by the German submarine U-32, 24 miles southwest of Wolf Rock in the English channel. She sank on the 26th April, after all 1,752 Australian troops on board had been able to leave the ship.