KANIMBLA

Australian

Namesake: Kanimbla Valley
Builder: Harland and Wolff Limited
Laid down: July 1933
Launched: 15 December 1935
Commissioned: 6 September 1939 (Royal Navy)
Recommissioned: 1 June 1943 (Royal Australian Navy)
Decommissioned: 25 March 1949
Renamed: Kanimbla (1936-1939)
HMS Kanimbla (1939-1943)
HMAS Kanimbla (1943-1950)
Oriental Queen (1961 onwards)
Reclassified: Passenger vessel (1936-1939)
Armed merchant cruiser (1939-1943)
Landing Ship Infantry (1943-1950)
Passenger vessel (1950 onwards)
Honours and
awards: Battle honours:
New Guinea 1944
Leyte Gulf 1944
Lingayen Gulf 1945
Borneo 1945
Pacific 1945
Fate: Returned to civilian service
General characteristics
Displacement: 10,985 tons
Length: 468.8 ft (142.9 m)
Beam: 66.3 ft (20.2 m)
Draught: 24.4 ft (7.4 m)
Propulsion: Diesel engines, twin screws. 10,000 horsepower
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Capacity: 1,380 troops (as landing ship)
Complement: 345
Armament:
(as merchant cruiser):
7 x 6-inch guns
2 x 3-inch anti-aircraft guns
2 x Lewis light machine guns
(as landing ship):
1 x 4-inch gun
2 x 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns
2 x 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
12 x 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns

Photo Credits: Late Don Ross Collection

Details supplied by shiplist

Cheers and GB

Gordy