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WAKOOL (1898)
Service dates: 1910-1913
Official number: 109996
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O BRANCH LINE
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 26.10.1898
- Launched for Wilhelm Lund, London. She was named, like other Lund vessels, after an Australian settlement, in her case a town in south-west New South Wales near the border with Victoria.
- 1905
- Ownership transferred to Blue Anchor Line Ltd (W Lund & Sons, managers).
- 26.01.1910
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for £30,441 as part of Blue Anchor Line business.
- 20.07.1910
- First P&O sailing after refit.
- 04.1913
- Sold for £23,267 to Goshi Kaisha Kishimoto Shokwa, Japan, and renamed Kwanto Maru.
- 1917
- Sold to the French Government and renamed Le Myre de Villiers.
- 1919
- Sold to Brabant et Pruvost, France.
- 1923
- Sold to S Bertorello, Italy, for demolition.
- 23.04.1925
- Work was finally completed at Spezia.