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OONAH (1888)
Service dates: 1917-1922
Official number: 57617
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 17.12.1887
- Launched.
- 02.1888
- Completed as Oonah for the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, Hobart.
- 01.04.1891
- Taken over by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. She was transferred to New Zealand but restored to her Hobart/Australia services following protests.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 01.01.1922
- Transferred to Tasmanian Steamers Pty Ltd, Melbourne, on its formation (which was run as a subsidiary of P&O).
- 1935
- Sold to Miyachi KKK, Kobe and broken up at Osaka.