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KAIKORAI (1918)
Service dates: 1920-1948
Official number: 142416
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 20.01.1918
- Launched for the Shipping Controller as War Foam.
- 16.05.1918
- Delivered to the British African Shipping & Coaling Company, London, and renamed Cape Natal (G B Harland & Co, West Hartlepool, managers).
- 1920
- Acquired by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 06.07.1921
- Renamed Kaikorai.
- 04.04.1924
- Registry transferred to Wellington, NZ.
- 10.1947
- Withdrawn from service and laid up at Port Chalmers.
- 1948
- Sold to Hwah Lee Steamship Company, Shanghai, retaining her name.
- 1949
- Owned by the Purple Star Steamship Company, Panama.
- 04.1949
- In Lloyd’s Register her classification was expunged due to reported defects.
- 1950
- Transferred to Grande Shipping Corporation, Panama.
- 1952
- Returned to Purple Star Steamship Company, Shanghai.
- 1955
- Renamed Chung Hsing 7.
- 1968
- Last entry in Lloyd’s Register. She was probably scrapped there sometime in the 1950s.