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CORINNA (1882)
Service dates: 1917-1930
Official number: 79252
Shipping lines: ANCHOR SHIPPING & FOUNDRY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 05.04.1882
- Launched.
- 04.1882
- Completed as Corinna for the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company, Hobart, for their Australian service.
- 01.04.1891
- Acquired by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and placed on the New Zealand coastal service.
- 1892
- Placed on the Sydney/Launceston service.
- 28.11.1896
- Stranded at Nelson.
- 07.09.1897
- Stranded at Timaru.
- 28.11.1898
- Suffered a fire while she was at Westport.
- 21.11.1905
- Stranded at Wellington.
- 03.07.1906
- In a collision with Pondo at Wellington.
- 05.08.1915
- Stranded at Wellington.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Anchor Shipping & Foundry its subsidiary) by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 17.07.1921
- Struck the wharf at Wellington.
- 28.10.1922
- Once again struck the wharf at Wellington.
- 20.06.1923
- Stranded at Dunedin.
- 13.08.1924
- Struck the wharf at Wellington.
- 28.07.1926
- Registry transferred to Wellington.
- 21.11.1929
- Collided with a launch while at Lyttelton.
- 03.01.1930
- Withdrawn and laid up at Wellington. Stripped down to her hull.
- 08.11.1930
- Towed out and scuttled in the Cook Strait.