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STORM (1920)
Service dates: 1924-1956
Official number: 144927
Shipping lines: CANTERBURY STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 10.1920
- Completed for John Saunders Ltd (Lythgoe Prince & Company managers) as River Wear.
- 09.1924
- Acquired by the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company as a replacement for Ripa and renamed Storm.
- 30.12.1924
- Stranded at Wanganui.
- 29.10.1927
- Stranded at Wellington.
- 18.12.1931
- Went ashore off Akaroa.
- 21.05.1934
- Struck a submerged object off Banks Peninsula.
- 03.04.1936
- Stranded at Wanganui.
- 1938
- Re-measured. Now 756 grt, 439 nrt. Re-engined at Sydney with 755 bhp Fairbanks-Morse diesel which increased service speed to 10.5 knots.
- 1939
- Re-measured. Now 734 grt, 370 nrt.
- 30.03.1939
- Machinery breakdown off Godley Head.
- 28.04.1939
- Experienced some propeller trouble off the Canterbury coastline.
- 1945
- Re-measured. Now 733 grt, 369 nrt.
- 17.10.1945
- Collided with Rattray Street Wharf, Dunedin.
- 1955
- Engines altered.
- 18.12.1956
- Left Wellington for Japan with a cargo of scrap steel after being sold to the Crescent Corporation of Panama and renamed Rose Pearl.
- 10.1957
- Arrested at Darwin after Dalgety & Co Ltd served a writ for £15,585 on the ship.
- 1957
- Sold to the Cie de Nav Victorio Neptuno SA, Panama and renamed Francoise.
- 1960
- Acquired by Guan Guan Shipping Ltd, Singapore, and renamed Batu Mas and transferred to its subsidiary Cathay Shipping Corporation (1960) and then Transportes Maritimas de San Blas SA.
- 1964
- Renamed Chevalier.
- 1965
- Transferred to Cie de Nav Santos SA management and renamed Saffi.
- 1966
- Reverted to Chevalier.
- 1966
- Transferred to King Line SA, Panama, and renamed King Tiger.
- 10.1972
- Completed last voyage and sold for demolition.