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WAIPORI (1938)
Service dates: 1938-1965
Official number: 142917
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 28.07.1938
- Launched.
- 10.1938
- Completed as Waipori for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand for their trans-Tasman service.
- 1939/1945
- Used, as required, to carry military stores to the Pacific bases.
- 12.02.1945
- Suffered a fire while she was off Lyttelton.
- 1948
- Re-measured. Now 2,465 nrt.
- 01.1965
- Sold to Teh Hu Steamship Company, Hong Kong, for their Australia Pacific Shipping Company. She was renamed Pacific Mariner.
- 1967
- Sold to the Kimberley Shipping Corporation, Panama, without a change of name.
- 23.06.1969
- Arrived at Hong Kong for breaking up.
- 08.1969
- Demolition began by Ming Kee Ltd.