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KARITANE (1903)
Service dates: 1917-1921
Official number: 118012
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 14.03.1903
- Launched.
- 04.1903
- Completed as Cavalier for Stewart Steamship Co (Liverpool) Ltd (R Stewart & Co, managers).
- 1905
- Sold to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and renamed Karitane.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 24.12.1921
- While en route from Devonport to Port Kembla she ran aground at Deal Island, in the Bass Strait. She was later beached at Squally Bay and totally wrecked.