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FLORA (1882)
Service dates: 1917-1944
Official number: 82526
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship; Oil and Fuel Oil Carrier.
Career
- 15.04.1882
- Launched.
- 07.07.1882
- Completed as Flora for Bailey & Leetham for the Scandinavian trade.
- 1884
- Sold to the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, Hobart, for the Hobart/Melbourne service.
- 01.04.1891
- Taken over by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. She retained her name and her services although she often voyaged to Rarotonga during the fruit season May-October.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 10.1925
- Out of service. Laid up at Auckland.
- 06.1927
- Converted to an oil barge at Auckland.
- 01.12.1944
- The hulk was scuttled off Great Barrier Island.