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WAIKAWA (1907)

Service dates: 1917

Official number: 136754

Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

03.1907
Completed for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, as Schlesien.
07.08.1914
Unaware that war had broken out she was stopped in the English Channel by HMS Vindictive and taken as a war prize.
01.1915
Sold at auction by the Admiralty Marshall to Wm Thomas & Sons, London. She was renamed Maritime of the Maritime Steamship Co, London. Finally she was acquired by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and renamed Waikawa.
01.07.1917
Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
19.10.1917
On a passage from Rouen to Barry Dock in ballast, she was torpedoed by UB31 6½km (4 miles) off Start Point, English Channel.


Ship technical details (PDF)