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WESTMEATH (1903)
Service dates: 1917-1925
Official number: 117381
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 08.1903
- Completed as Everton Grange for the Empire Transport Co, part of the Houlder Group (Houlder Bros & Co, managers).
- 11.1911
- Transferred to the New Zealand Shipping Co and renamed Westmeath.
- 04.1915
- Sold to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and retained her name.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 15.07.1917
- Inbound from Buenos Aires/Montevideo/Le Havre with meat when she was torpedoed by UC48 in the English Channel 13km (8 miles) off Triajoz Light.
- 1925
- Sold to Soc Ligure de Navegazione a Vap, Genoa, and renamed Nordico.
- 1927
- Resold to Ditta DE Fratelli Bozzo, Genoa.
- 29.03.1930
- Laid up at Genoa.
- 02.05.1932
- Sold to Giacomo Pittaluga, Genoa and arrived Savona for demolition.