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OPUA (1902)
Service dates: 1925-1926
Official number: 112563
Shipping lines: ANCHOR SHIPPING & FOUNDRY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 07.02.1902
- Launched.
- 04.1902
- Completed as Ramornie for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Sydney.
- 1919
- Sold to McCorkill Ltd, Perth.
- 1920
- Sold to D Reese, Christchurch and renamed Opua.
- 18.11.1924
- Stranded at Farewell Spit.
- 1925
- Acquired by the Opua Shipping Company, Christchurch (D Reese, manager).
- 15.12.1925
- Sold to Anchor Shipping & Foundry Co Ltd.
- 02.06.1926
- Stranded at Manukau.
- 02.10.1926
- Wrecked approximately 19km (12 miles) north-east of Cape Palliser Lighthouse on a passage from Gisborne to Wellington.