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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)