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CALM (1909)

Service dates: 1917-1936

Official number: 129111

Shipping lines: CANTERBURY STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship.


Career

25.11.1908
Launched.
05.1909
Completed as Skell for Norwegian owners.
1910
Sold to the Empresa Fluvial Brasil Uruguay for service on the River Plate and renamed Cuyaba.
1912
Laid up.
1914
Acquired by the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company.
04.1915
Arrived at Lyttelton and renamed Calm. She was placed on the Bluff/Dunedin/Oamaru/Timaru/Lyttelton/Wellington/Wanganui service.
01.07.1917
Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Canterbury Steam Shipping Company a subsidiary) by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
07.07.1921
Collided with the barque Rothesay Bay (anchored) off Rocky Point, Otago Harbour. Neither ship was badly damaged.
10.10.1925
Stranded at Wanganui.
22.05.1928
Struck the mole at Wanganui.
24.05.1928
Damaged her propeller while at Wanganui.
05.04.1930
Struck the bridge at Wanganui.
25.10.1930
Collided with Antiope at Wanganui.
09.1933
Laid up.
04.1936
Sold to F E Jackson Ltd, Auckland, for scrap.


Ship technical details (PDF)