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NIKAU (1909)
Service dates: 1917-1954
Official number: 93994
Shipping lines: ANCHOR SHIPPING & FOUNDRY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 06.04.1909
- Launched.
- 05.1909
- Completed as Nikau for Anchor Shipping & Foundry Ltd.
- 25.06.1917
- Damaged her propeller in the French Pass.
- 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.
- 26.11.1917
- Experienced propeller damage in Blind Bay.
- 18.03.1921
- Ran aground in the French Pass.
- 05.02.1931
- Had damage while in the Cook Strait.
- 1935
- Converted to a motorship and re-engined with 2 diesels.
- 16.11.1937
- Stranded while in Queen Charlotte Sound.
- 09.04.1938
- Involved in a collision with Rangitoa at Nelson.
- 04.05.1938
- Stranded at Motueka.
- 06.02.1943
- Suffered a broken shaft while off Westport.
- 21.11.1944
- Ran aground off Cape Campbell.
- 1954
- Sold to Kiwi Shipping Co, Auckland
- 1955
- Sold to the Northern Steam Ship Co, Auckland.
- 1956
- Sold to Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd, Port Vila.
- 05.12.1964
- Wrecked at Loasia, off the east coast of Tanna Island, New Hebrides.