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KARAMU (1912)
Service dates: 1917-1925
Official number: 127812
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND; CANTERBURY STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 19.04.1912
- Launched.
- 06.1912
- Completed as Karamu for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 24.01.1913
- In a collision with the Northern Steamship Company’s Rarawa at Onehunga.
- 22.05.1914
- Struck the wharf at Lyttelton.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 01.12.1919
- Stranded at Greymouth.
- 21.12.1921
- Sold for £12,500 to the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company, Christchurch (another P&O Group subsidiary) and renamed Gale. Her registry was changed to Lyttelton. In service she proved too deep to enter Wanganui at all states of the tide.
- 07.03.1922
- Stranded at Wanganui.
- 20.07.1922
- Stranded at Wanganui.
- 08.1922
- Sold back to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand for £13,000 and reverted to her original name Karamu.
- 1923
- Registry transferred to Sydney, NSW.
- 04.09.1925
- On a passage from Strahan to Hobart during a storm, she hit a rock off Entrance Island, Kitchen Bay. She developed a leak and sank 1.6km (1 mile) east of South West Cape, Tasmania.