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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)