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WAIPIATA (1926)
Service dates: 1926-1956
Official number: 151510
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 08.07.1926
- Launched.
- 08.1926
- Completed as Waipiata for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand for the Auckland/east coast/Dunedin service.
- 02.11.1927
- Struck the wharf at Wellington.
- 09.02.1935
- Stranded at Napier.
- 27.11.1935
- Suffered some damage at Auckland.
- 20.07.1936
- Suffered damage on a voyage from Wellington to Auckland.
- 28.08.1943
- Collided with a tug at Port Chalmers.
- 27.04.1945
- Suffered a fire while at Dunedin.
- 1947
- Re-measured. Now 2,830 grt, 1,602 nrt.
- 1949
- Re-measured. Now 2,847 grt, 1,604 nrt.
- 05.05.1950
- Involved in a collision with the Taranaki at Wellington.
- 1956
- Sold to John Manners & Co, Hong Kong and renamed San Roberto for the San Roberto Steamship Company SA, Panama.
- 1963
- Sold to the Coastal Shipping Corp, Hong Kong, without a change of name.
- 1966
- Sold to Intertrader Shipping Company SA, Panama, and renamed Intertrader.
- 26.01.1968
- Demolished at Hong Kong by Leung Yau Shipbreaking.