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TASMANIA (1913)
Service dates: 1921-1936
Official number: 143348
Shipping lines: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 26.06.1913
- Launched.
- 17.09.1913
- Completed as Tasmania for the Deutsch-Australische DG, Hamburg.
- 05.08.1914
- Seized by the Belgian Government at Antwerp.
- 09.10.1914
- Returned to her owners.
- 03.05.1919
- Surrendered to the British Government and registered at London in the name of The Shipping Controller, London (F & W Ritson, Sunderland, managers).
- 1920
- Management transferred to the New Zealand Shipping Company.
- 18.01.1921
- Sold to the New Zealand Shipping Company without a change of name.
- 26.08.1921/04.11.1921
- Laid up at Falmouth.
- 03.05.1922
- Grounded on arriving at Wellington from Brisbane.
- 1923
- Re-measured. Now 9,008 grt, 5,765 nrt.
- 16.12.1928
- Collided with the motorship Pacific Shipper in the Manchester Shipping Canal off the Old Quay Lock Layby, bound Newport to Brisbane.
- 1930
- Re-engined. Now equipped with low pressure turbine of 500 shp connected to the shaft through double reduction gearing and Bauer-Wach couplings.
- 19.01.1932
- Struck a wreck, bound London to Brisbane.
- 06.03.1932
- Lost a blade from her propeller, bound Sydney to Brisbane.
- 16.03.1932
- Suffered a fire in the port boiler at Sydney.
- 23.04.1932
- Touched the bank of the Yarra River when proceeding to her berth at Melbourne.
- 03.10.1933/19.01.1934
- Laid up at Falmouth.
- 18.07.1934/15.02.1935
- Laid up at Falmouth.
- 11.07.1935/27.01.1936
- Laid up at Falmouth.
- 27.01.1936
- Sold for £14,000 through WP Jobson & Co to Metal Industries Ltd.
- 31.01.1936
- Arrived at Rosyth where demolition commenced the next month.