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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.