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KAITOA (1909)
Service dates: 1917-1950
Official number: 93995
Shipping lines: ANCHOR SHIPPING & FOUNDRY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 22.06.1909
- Launched.
- 1909
- Completed as Kaitoa for Anchor Shipping & Foundry Ltd.
- 10.10.1915
- Stranded in Blind Bay.
- 1915
- Re-measured. Now 312 grt, 134 nrt.
- 1916
- Re-measured. Now 319 grt, 141 nrt.
- 02.03.1916
- Ran aground at Motueka.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Anchor Shipping & Foundry a subsidiary company) by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 03.08.1930
- Ran aground at Wanganui.
- 1939
- Re-measured. Now 136 nrt.
- 21.07.1941
- Broke her shaft while at Wellington.
- 19.02.1949
- Stranded at Manukau.
- 1950
- Sold to Wells Bros, Wakatahuri, Marlborough Sound, and broken up there.