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HOKITIKA (1916)

Service dates: 1941-1942

Official number: 136865

Shipping lines: ANCHOR SHIPPING & FOUNDRY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

03.1916
Completed as Waipu for Northern Steam Ship Company, Auckland.
15.04.1921
Suffered a problem with her propeller on the Paeroa River.
13.02.1929
Suffered a fire while at Auckland.
1935
Sold to M A Scott, Auckland.
02.1936
Sold to Eclipse Shipping Company, Auckland and renamed Hokitika. At that time, she was re-engined.
29.10.1936
Struck the wharf at Wellington.
09.09.1939
Stranded at Foxton.
16.10.1941
Sold to Anchor Shipping & Foundry Ltd without a change of name.
1942
Sold to the New Zealand Government for US Navy employment in the Pacific.
1945
Sold to Aspden Shipping Company, Auckland, and registered at that port.
1954
Sold to E Savoie, Noumea, and renamed Colorado Del Mar.
1954
Sold to Etablissements Ballande, Santu New Hebrides, and renamed Havannah.
1959
Sold to Wide Bay Shipping Company, Maryborough, Queensland.
1960
Sold to Blue Pacific Charter Pty, Brisbane, and renamed Blue Pacific.
1965
Sold to H C Williams, Rarotonga, and renamed Havannah.


Ship technical details (PDF)