MAKO (1914)

Service dates: 1917-1938

Official number: 121595

Shipping lines: RICHARDSON & COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:

• Cargo Ship

General Cargo Ship.

Career

23.06.1914

Launched.

09.1914

Completed as Mako for Richardson & Company Ltd.

01.07.1917

Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Richardson & Company a subsidiary company) by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.

12.07.1918

Involved in a collision with the scow Seagull at Auckland. The scow was beached and badly damaged.

12.10.1919

A passenger drowned off Hick’s Bay.

1921

Laid up for four months as a result of a dispute with the New Zealand Seamen’s Union. Subsequently refitted and the superstructure altered.

19.10.1923

Sprung a leak at Nelson.

27.01.1924

Struck a reef off Cape Palliser while on a voyage from Napier to Wellington.

27.07.1924

Her machinery was damaged at Auckland.

24.10.1925

Struck the wharf at Napier while sailing short-handed as the result of an industrial dispute. She was escorted back to Auckland for repairs by the Tangaroa.

04.03.1926

Sprung a leak off Cape Runaway.

1928

Her power was increased to 92 nhp.

18.02.1928

Fractured her main condenser door while on a voyage from Auckland to Napier.

04.01.1930

Involved in a minor collision with Orepuki at Greymouth.

02.1931/08.1931

Laid up at Auckland.

1932

Laid up at Auckland.

08.1937

Recommissioned after a major refit which included the removal of the after deckhouse.

07.1938

Sold to Coconut Products Ltd, Rabaul. She was towed to Sydney by Salamaua. Re-measured. Now 493 grt, 215 nrt.

1946

Sold to Mayer Navigation Co, Hong Kong, and renamed Mei Hwa.

1947

Sold to Hua Sheng Steamship Co, Shanghai, and renamed Hai Ou.

1950

Renamed Vulture.

1952

Renamed Hai Ou.

1964

Deleted from Lloyd’s Register

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