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WAIMARINO (1900)
Service dates: 1917-1926
Official number: 110517
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 04.1900
- Completed as Lord Roberts for The Irish Shipowners Co Ltd, Belfast (Thomas Dixon & Sons, managers).
- 1900
- Sold to the British Maritime Trust and renamed Wyandotte.
- 1909
- The company was taken over by Furness, Withy & Co, West Hartlepool.
- 1912
- Operate by the British & Argentine Steam Navigation Co, London (Furness, Withy & Co, managers)
- 1914
- Acquired by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and renamed Waimarino. She was dazzle painted.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1925
- Withdrawn from service and laid up at Sydney.
- 1926
- Sold to Moller & Co, Shanghai and ownership registered to Chun Young Zan, Shanghai. She was renamed King Sing.
- 1929
- Ownership transferred to NEA Moller, Shanghai (Moller & Co, managers) and renamed Daisy Moller.
- 1934
- Broken up in Japan.