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REGULUS (1907)

Service dates: 1917-1930

Official number: 117596

Shipping lines: ANCHOR SHIPPING & FOUNDRY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship.


Career

16.02.1907
Launched.
04.1907
Completed as Regulus for the Westport Coal Company, Dunedin.
1913
Acquired by Anchor Shipping & Foundry and registered at Nelson, NZ.
08.02.1916
Stranded in Queen Charlotte Sound.
01.07.1917
Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Anchor Shipping & Foundry a subsidiary company) by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
12.12.1927
Involved in a collision with Thistle at Wanganui.
1936
Sold to F E Jackson & Co, Auckland, and broken up at Nelson.


Ship technical details (PDF)