Construction
The ship was laid down as motor vessel (MV) Kanimbla for McIlwraith McEachern Limited by Harland and Wolff Limited at Belfast in Northern Ireland in July 1933. She was launched on 15 December 1935 and completed on 26 April 1936.
The ship was named for the Kanimbla Valley, west of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
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