# SS Selje (1920)

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Norwegian cargo vessel

**SS *Selje*** was a Norwegian [cargo ship](/source/Cargo_ship) on passage from [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne), [Australia](/source/Australia), to the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) with a cargo of grain when she collided with the [steamship](/source/Steamship) [SS *Kaituna*](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Kaituna&action=edit&redlink=1) soon after 11:00 pm on 29 March 1929. *Kaituna* hit her amidships and she sank 25 minutes later, 25 [nautical miles](/source/Nautical_mile) (46 km; 29 mi) southwest of [Cape Otway](/source/Cape_Otway), [Victoria](/source/Victoria_(Australia)), [Australia](/source/Australia).[1] *Kaituna* had her bow badly battered.[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Survivors of Sunken Ship Tell Graphic Story of Collision"](http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59851996). *The Mail (Adelaide, South Australia), Saturday 30 March 1929, p.1*. Retrieved 6 August 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["What Sank Selje"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40666114). *Cairns Post, Tuesday 2 April 1929, p.5*. Retrieved 18 July 2012.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1929 Shipwrecks 2 Jan: Malakoff 16 Jan: Hsin Wah 12 Feb: Alloway 19 Feb: Kanowna 22 Mar: I'm Alone 25 Mar: Muggia 29 Mar: Selje 26 May: Aleutian 9 Jul: HMS H47 17 Jul: USS General Alava 1 Aug: Asakaze 30 Aug: San Juan 7 Sep: Kuru 9 Sep: Andaste 11 Sep: Acielle 2 Oct: Commandant Bultinck 22 Oct: Milwaukee 29 Oct: Wisconsin 31 Oct: Senator 4 Nov: Gilbert San 29 Nov: Norwich City 7 Dec: Ägir 18 Dec: Fort Victoria Unknown date: San Antonio Other incidents 5 Jan: Siboney 20 Jan: President Garfield 29 Jan: City of Cairo 28 Feb: Liberty Glo 7 Mar: Thétis 10 Mar: Pengreep 22 Mar: USCGC Dexter 25 Mar: Germaine L D 26 Mar: Europa 28 Mar: Libia 30 Mar: Naïade 6 Apr USS Childs 7 Apr Paris 18 Apr Paris 27 Apr: Duchess of Richmond April (unknown date) Franconia 15 May: Irwell May (unknown date): Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Rothesay 9 Jul: HMS L12 11 Jul: I-55, Kinugasa 3 Aug: Medway Queen 9 Aug: Viceroy of India 20 Aug Paris September (unknown date): Binnendijk, Eider 5 Oct: NRP Adamastor 12 Oct: USFS Widgeon 13 Oct: Empress of Canada 19 Oct: Bowes Castle 20 Oct: USAT Liberty 6 Nov: Barbana G 13 Nov: Ro-63 22 Nov: Parizhskaya Kommuna 7 Dec: Aba 18 Dec: Algonquin 24 Dec: Roosevelt 1928 1930

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