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MAORI (1907)
Service dates: 1917-1946
Official number: 117598
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 11.05.1907
- Launched.
- 16.08.1907
- Completed as Maori for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 16.09.1907
- Wind took her during trials, grounded on Dumbarton Rocks, successfully towed off.
- 18.09.1907
- Hit and sank the Campbeltown & Glasgow Steam Packet Company’s Kintyre, damaged bow replated.
- 25.09.1907
- Handed over to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, grounded on sandbank but came off under own power.
- 27.12.1907
- Broke route record with 8 hours 23 minutes at 20.8 knots.
- 04.02.1908
- Experienced problems with propeller off Kaikoura.
- 02.10.1913
- Joined by Wahine to give two express ships on the route.
- 20.12.1913
- Collided with Ruahine at Wellington.
- 1916
- Wartime crew shortage led to cancellation of sailing.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 28.01.1918
- Damaged propeller while off Pencarrow.
- 26.02.1922
- Collision with Zita off Godley Head.
- 1923
- Converted to oil burning.
- 08.10.1925
- Damaged off New Zealand coast.
- 28.11.1929
- Trouble with propeller in Cook Strait.
- 30.06.1931
- Leak while at Wellington.
- 10.04.1940
- Registry transferred to Wellington, NZ. Re-measured.
- 06.01.1944
- Laid up at Wellington.
- 06.1946
- Sold to United Corporation of China Ltd, Shanghai and renamed Hwalien.
- 22.08.1946
- Joined Shanghai/Australia service, later transferred to Shanghai/Tsingtao service.
- 1950
- Sold to Chung Lien Steamship Co, laid up at Keelung.
- 13.01.1951
- Dragged anchors during hurricane, drove aground and subsequently sank.
- 05.1951
- Raised and condemned as total loss, part of hull became floating crane barge.