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WAITOMO (1911)
Service dates: 1917-1933
Official number: 132990
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 07.06.1911
- Launched.
- 11.1911
- Completed as Gifford for Gifford Trading Co Ltd, Glasgow, (Andrew Weir & Co Ltd, managers).
- 1913
- Acquired by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and renamed Waitomo.
- 13.07.1913
- Stranded at Otago Harbour.
- 1914
- Registry transferred to London, UK.
- 1914/1918
- Used for Government war service to carry supplies.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 28.05.1920
- Suffered some damage to her machinery in the Tasman Sea.
- 1923
- Registry transferred to Sydney, NSW.
- 1923
- Registry transferred to London, UK.
- 22.03.1924
- Registry transferred to Wellington, NZ.
- 23.07.1928
- Broke her shaft while in the Tasman Sea.
- 09.1928
- Laid up at Auckland.
- 1933
- Sold to the China Pacific Steam Navigation Co, Shanghai, and renamed Meishun.
- 1933
- Broken up at Osaka, Japan.