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TAUPATA (1930)
Service dates: 1930-1949
Official number: 153992
Shipping lines: ANCHOR SHIPPING & FOUNDRY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 17.12.1930
- Completed. She had been launched unnamed on speculation by Niccol and sold to Anchor Shipping & Foundry while fitting out.
- 10.03.1931
- Registry transferred to Nelson, NZ.
- 05.12.1931
- Suffered propeller damage off Cape Egmont.
- 16.01.1932
- Broke her shaft in the Tasman Bay.
- 27.06.1934
- Broke her shaft off Pigeon Bay.
- 29.04.1935
- Stranded in the French Pass.
- 18.07.1938
- Stranded at Motueka.
- 28.12.1939
- Stranded in the Tory Channel.
- 15.07.1940
- Suffered propeller damage at Tarakohe.
- 29.01.1947
- Stranded in the French Pass.
- 25.02.1948
- Stranded in the French Pass.
- 1949
- Sold to Pearl Kasper Shipping Company, Nelson.
- 1962
- Sold to Coastal Services (Motueka), Nelson.