The SS Essex Passenger Ship

The SS Essex

The SS Essex was built by John Brown at Clydebank in 1902 as cargo vessel and owned by The Federal Steam Navigation Company London. It weighed 7000 tons and was 460 feet long. It was driven by triple expansion steam engines.

Timothy Burgum, age 58, and Lillian Burgum, age 26, ("RR" family tree) travelled on the "SS Essex" and departed from Liverpool on 8th July 1911 and arrived in Brisbane on the 9th September 1911.

The ship was finally scrapped in 1933.

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