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KAIMIRO (1929)
Service dates: 1929-1954
Official number: 151516
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 19.09.1929
- Launched.
- 10.1929
- Completed as Kaimiro for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 13.10.1936
- Involved in a collision with the Kapuni at Westport.
- 28.05.1942
- Lost her anchor off Napier.
- 06.12.1944
- Broke her shaft off North Cape.
- 28.02.1948
- Stranded in the Buller River.
- 04.1948
- Re-measured. Now 2,591 grt, 1,327 nrt.
- 12.04.1949
- Collided with the Pukeko at Whangarei.
- 24.03.1950
- Stranded at Whangarei.
- 10.05.1950
- Involved in a collision with the Humphrey at Auckland.
- 09.10.1952
- Withdrawn from service and up for sale.
- 1954
- Sold to R W Miller & Co Pty, Sydney, and renamed Branxton. Her masts and derricks were removed.
- 04.06.1969
- Sold to Goldfields Metal Traders, Fremantle and delivered to Sydney. Intended to be demolished at Sydney.
- 12.05.1970
- Left Sydney in tow by the tug Nullagine for Hong Kong. She was scrapped by Ming Hing & Co.