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KOMATA (1938)
Service dates: 1938-1940
Official number: 157659
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 10.10.1938
- Launched.
- 12.1938
- Completed for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand as Komata. She served as a Pacific Islands Nauru phosphates cargo carrier.
- 08.12.1940
- Outbound from Auckland the ship was sunk off Nauru by the German Commerce Raider Komet during her first cruise. Two crew were killed. Komet landed a total of 496 survivors on Emirau Island, Bismarck Archipelago after she had also sunk Triadic, Triona and Triaster.