Training Ships: HMAS Tingira

[Brian James]

Training Ship HMAS Tingira pictured at Sydney c1912.....She was built at Alexander Hall & Co Shipyard at Aberdeen in 1886 as the passenger Clipper SS Sobraon. Purchased by the NSW State Government in 1891 and moved to Sydney the ship became a reformatory for boys, training them for a maritime career. The Australian Federal Government purchased the ship for the new Royal Australian Navy in 1911 and the vessel was commissioned as HMAS Tingira and was used by the RAN as a Training Ship and was decommissioned in 1927.