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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)