HMAT ''Bulla'' was built as ''Hessen'' for the German Line

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in 1905. It was seized by Australian forces on September 3, 1914, when it sailed into Melbourne, being unaware of the outbreak of

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. It was a troop transport in the First World War, and then transferred to the Commonwealth Government Line of Steamers in 1918. It was sold in 1926 to W. Schuchmann, who renamed it ''Weissesee'' ''Weissesee'' was bombed and sunk by aircraft at

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, Germany, on 25 July 1943. The wreck was raised in 1949 and

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