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PURIRI (1915)
Service dates: 1920-1934
Official number: 143094
Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY; NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 22.01.1915
- Launched.
- 05.02.1916
- Completed as Augsburg for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen.
- 1919
- Surrendered to Great Britain as a prize and allocated to The Shipping Controller (Watts, Watts & Co Ltd, managers).
- 09.12.1920
- Purchased for £180,000 by The Hain Steamship Company Ltd and renamed Tremere.
- 1924
- Sold to the Federal Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London (New Zealand Shipping Company, managers) and renamed Puriri.
- 08.05.1930
- Suffered a fire in the forepeak at Falmouth.
- 07.1932/01.1934
- Laid up at Mylor.
- 10.1933
- Sold for £8,500 to Mitsuwa Shoji KK, Kobe.
- 05.1934
- Arrived in Japan for demolition.