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TREVITHICK (1910)
Service dates: 1920-1933
Official number: 144525
Shipping lines: HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY; NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 1910
- Launched.
- 12.1910
- Completed as Preussen for Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt AG, Germany.
- 1914/1918
- Interned at Sabang.
- 1919
- Surrendered to Great Britain as a prize and allocated to The Shipping Controller (British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd, managers).
- 13.12.1920
- Purchased for £160,000 by The Hain Steamship Company Ltd and renamed Trevithick.
- 05.1921/06.1922
- Laid up at Falmouth.
- 02.03.1923
- Collided with the steamer Vechtdijk bound New York to Barry.
- 21.07.1924
- Sold to the Federal Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London (New Zealand Shipping Company, managers) and renamed Papanui.
- 02.11.1930
- Collided with two tugs and a lighter at St Nazaire, bound Port Pirie to Bristol.
- 28.11.1930
- Struck by the steamer Yorkshire at Avonmouth.
- 01.1931/12.1933
- Laid up at Mylor.
- 11.1933
- Sold for £8,000 to Tamijo Okushaji, Osaka.
- 14.03.1934
- Sailed from Shimonoseki bound for demolition at Kuchinotsu.