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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.