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KAIRANGA (1915)
Service dates: 1920-1951
Official number: 143129
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Collier.
Career
- 12.1914
- Launched.
- 03.1915
- Completed as Antwerpen for the Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs Rhederei, Hamburg.
- 1919
- Turned over to Great Britain and put under the direction of The Shipping Controller (W A Young & Co, London, managers).
- 09.12.1920
- Purchased by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and renamed Kairanga.
- 1921
- Renamed Wingatui when she arrived in Australia.
- 1921
- Collided with the Westmoreland at Bluff.
- 08.02.1922
- Stranded off Napier.
- 04.10.1923
- Registry transferred to Wellington, NZ.
- 21.08.1925
- Suffered damaged machinery off Meeraki.
- 28.08.1926
- Suffered damaged machinery near Timaru.
- 27.11.1928
- Collided with the Port Wellington while at Auckland.
- 05.12.1928
- Stranded at Otago Harbour.
- 10.08.1931
- Stuck the wharf at Wellington.
- 11.09.1934
- Stranded at Port Chalmers and went onto a sandbank.
- 29.09.1936
- Suffered a fire while off Napier.
- n.d.
- Transferred to the coal service from the West Coast of the South Island to ports in the North Island.
- 14.03.1945
- Damaged her rudder while at Westport.
- 1948
- Re-measured. Now 2,401 grt, 1,302 nrt.
- 1949
- Withdrawn from service and laid up at Wellington.
- 1951
- Sold to Mrs E J Chandris, Piraeus and renamed Thoula Chandris. On charter to the Ministry of Food, she broke down en route from Wellington to South Australia. She was found with a 15° list by an RAAF Dakota. Papanui took her in tow to Nelson where tugs took over and docked her at Wellington.
- 12.06.1952
- Grounded on Arnemuiden Shoal, approaching Jakarta. She was floated off. She was subsequently sold to Mollers Ltd, Hong Kong, and broken up.