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WAIHORA (1907)
Service dates: 1917-1927
Official number: 123842
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 15.04.1907
- Launched.
- 05.1907
- Completed as Waihora for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand to augment their India/Singapore service.
- 1914
- On Government service to the Middle East and Europe.
- 1915/1922
- Employed on the Calcutta service.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1927
- Sold to Naigai K K K, Kobe, and renamed Tairyu Maru.
- 1938
- Sold to Kuribayashi Shosen K K, Tokyo and retained her name.
- 19.02.1944
- Sunk by a US Army aircraft off Taiwan (25°25’N-121°30’E).