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HOLMLEA (1921)
Service dates: 1924-1950
Official number: 144938
Shipping lines: RICHARDSON & COMPANY LTD.; HOLM STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 23.03.1921
- Launched.
- 08.1921
- Completed as Glenside for the Glenside Steamship Company Ltd, Middlesbrough.
- 1924
- Sold and renamed Parera.
- 10.04.1924
- Touched bottom while entering Inner Harbour, Napier.
- 03.12.1926
- Struck and damaged Tokomaru Bay Wharf.
- 22.07.1927
- Suffered some weather damage.
- 27.08.1927
- Struck Pipitea Wharf, Wellington.
- 1928
- Chartered to Anchor Shipping & Foundry Co Ltd, Nelson.
- 19.08.1928
- Struck a floating log off West Coast.
- 09.12.1929
- Struck Walker’s Rock, Cook Strait Sound.
- 1930
- Returned to Richardson’s East Coast service.
- 07.11.1931
- Helped the tug Toia to refloat the Pakura from the reef at Tora.
- 03.1934
- Chartered to Holm Shipping Company, Wellington.
- 16.09.1934
- Stranded at Port Waikato.
- 05.1936
- Sold and renamed Holmlea.
- 19.09.1938
- Struck the mole at Wanganui.
- 03.1944
- Re-measured. Now 253 nrt.
- 28.05.1945
- Struck the mole at Wanganui.
- 28.06.1947
- Sustained weather damage off Cape Campbell.
- 19.02.1949
- Sprang a leak off Westport.
- 28.12.1949
- Slightly damaged when coal cargo caught fire at Greymouth.
- 12.1949
- Sold and renamed Kiama.
- 19.01.1951
- Foundered with the loss of six lives, about 10km (6.25 miles) off Tuggerah, NSW, while on a voyage from Newcastle to Sydney with a cargo of coal.