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KOPUA (1937)
Service dates: 1947-1959
Official number: 157794
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 26.11.1936
- Launched.
- 01.1937
- Completed as Port Tauranga for Captain A F Watchlin, Auckland. Employed on the timber trade. When she was built, she had the longest hold.
- 29.06.1942
- Stranded in the Clarence River, NSW.
- 05.12.1947
- Acquired by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. Her named was intended to be Kama.
- 1948
- Renamed Kopua.
- 08.1949
- Re-measured. Now 1,528 grt, 744 nrt.
- 10.1950
- Re-measured. Now 1,529 grt, 744 nrt.
- 04.1954
- Re-measured. Now 745 nrt.
- 11.1959
- Withdrawn from service.
- 1960
- Sold to Hethking Steamships Pty Ltd, Sydney (Hetherington, Kingsbury Pty Ltd, Sydney, managers) and renamed Cobargo.
- 1972
- Laid up at Sydney.
- 07.1973
- Sold to United Steamships Ltd, Apia, and renamed Salmon Bay. She was converted to carry sugar and molasses.
- 1974
- Sold to Universal Dallas Corp Inc, Panama (Log & Timber Products Ltd, Singapore, managers) and renamed Universal Dallas.
- 25.01.1976
- Arrived at Pontianak for demolition the following year.