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RAUPO (1876)
Service dates: 1922-1937
Official number: 75188
Shipping lines: CANTERBURY STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Hulk.
Career
- 08.1876
- Launched as Peru for J W Robertson and others, Dundee.
- 1881
- Management placed in the hands of John Stewart & Co, London, following the death of Robertson.
- 11.1888
- Grounded on Silloths Rocks while on a voyage from Townsville to Gisborne. She was refloated and had sustained only minor damage.
- 1907
- Acquired on behalf of J J Craig, Auckland, by James Baxter, London. She was renamed Louisa Craig.
- 17.04.1916
- Sold to G H Scales, Wellington, for further trading and was renamed Raupo.
- 10.1921
- Laid up at Wellington.
- 03.1922
- Sold to the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company for use as a coal hulk at Lyttelton.
- 1937
- Partially dismantled and the remaining portion of hull beached in Lyttelton Harbour.