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KIWITEA (1925)
Service dates: 1925-1955
Official number: 151507
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 22.06.1925
- Launched.
- 09.1925
- Completed as Kiwitea for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 09.06.1935
- Stranded in the Grey River.
- 1941
- Re-measured. Now 2,343 grt, 1,166 nrt.
- 12.11.1941
- Struck the wharf at Auckland.
- 27.06.1944
- Lost her anchor off North Cape.
- 09.1950
- Re-measured. Now 2,384 grt, 1,152 nrt.
- 27.08.1952
- Withdrawn from service and placed on the disposal list.
- 1955
- Sold with Kartigi to the Grosvenor Shipping Co Ltd, Hong Kong.
- 02.1956
- Sold to breakers with her sister and scrapped.