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KAITANGATA (1907)
Service dates: 1917-1930
Official number: 125625
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 10.09.1907
- Launched.
- 10.1907
- Completed as Ladywood for W France, Fenwick & Co, London.
- 1908
- Acquired by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and renamed Kaitangata.
- 16.11.1910
- Stranded in Bluff Harbour.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 15.11.1918
- Involved in a collision with Cooee at Auckland.
- 19.11.1919
- Sustained damage to her machinery while off Cape Runaway.
- 1920
- Re-measured. Now 2,005 grt, 1,195 nrt.
- 23.03.1927
- Had a leak while in the Tasman Sea.
- 12.06.1929
- Experienced some machinery damage while at Greymouth.
- 1930
- Sold Ling Nam Steamship Co Ltd, Hong Kong, without a name change.
- 25.10.1937
- Sank following an explosion and fire in the South China Sea on a passage from Hong Kong to Haiphong.