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REMUERA (1911)
Service dates: 1916-1940
Official number: 124590
Shipping lines: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 31.05.1911
- Launched.
- 05.09.1911
- Ran trials.
- 08.09.1911
- Delivered as Remuera for GT Haycraft and TR Westray at a cost of £176,100.
- 16.09.1911
- Registered to GT Haycraft and TR Westray.
- 28.09.1911
- Maiden voyage to Wellington.
- 18.02.1912
- Collided with the steamer Niobe off the Lizard.
- 05.05.1915
- Ownership transferred to the New Zealand Shipping Company.
- 15.07.1916
- Made the first New Zealand Shipping Co passenger sailing through the Panama Canal, bound Wellington to London.
- 07.09.1916
- Takeover of the New Zealand Shipping Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 14.08.1917/19.02.1919
- Came under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 1920
- Boilers converted to oil fuel and accommodation rebuilt before re-entering the New Zealand service. Re-measured. Now 11,158 grt, 7,113 nrt.
- 03.03.1921
- Re-entered commercial service.
- 21.07.1922
- Collided with the steamer Marengo 20km (12 miles) south of Bolt Tail, Devon. She arrived at Portland the same day and returned to Tilbury for repairs on 25th July.
- 09.09.1925
- In a collision with the tanker Matina at Willemstad.
- 23.12.1926
- Suffered a fire in No.1 ‘tween deck.
- 1927
- Re-measured. Now 11,383 grt, 7,246 nrt. Accommodation further reconstructed with 20 additional cabins on the old boat deck and the boats raised.
- 1933
- Passenger capacity now only for cabin and tourist class only.
- 19.04.1940
- Requisitioned for service in the Liner Division.
- 26.08.1940
- Sunk by aerial torpedoes off the Moray Firth (57°50’N-01°54’W) bound Wellington to London. All 93 members of the crew and one gunner were rescued.