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ROTORUA (1910)
Service dates: 1916-1917
Official number: 124587
Shipping lines: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 09.07.1910
- Launched.
- 05.10.1910
- Ran trials and delivered as Rotorua for GT Haycraft and TR Westray at a cost of £172,500. She was the second of three sisters to be delivered with Ruahine launched before her and Remuera after.
- 06.10.1910
- Registered to GT Haycraft and TR Westray.
- 27.10.1910
- Maiden voyage to Wellington.
- 1912
- Attempted unsuccessfully to tow the P&O ship Oceana to safety after she had been rammed in the Channel by the German sailing ship Pisagua.
- 13.11.1912
- Ownership transferred to the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.
- Spring 1915
- Brought the first consignment of New Zealand Army nurses to England.
- 07.09.1916
- Takeover of the New Zealand Shipping Company by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 22.03.1917
- Torpedoed and sunk by UC17 38km (24 miles) east of Start Point, en route from Wellington and Newport News to London with general cargo. One life was lost.