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TANGAROA (1899)
Service dates: 1917-1939
Official number: 106231
Shipping lines: RICHARDSON & COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 1899
- Completed for Alexander Davidson and Richard Todd, Napier. She was originally 189 grt, 109 nrt.
- 1905
- Davidson’s shares sold to J C Tonkin, Napier.
- 18.06.1908
- Collided with Tu Atu while crossing the Wairoa Bar.
- 20.12.1908
- Ran aground in the Wairoa River.
- 1909
- Acquired by the Wairoa & Mohaka Steam Ship Company Ltd.
- 18.06.1911
- Involved in a collision with Te Aroha in the Wairoa River.
- 08.11.1911
- Grounded in the Wairoa River.
- 1913
- Acquired by Richardson & Company Ltd.
- 01.07.1917
- Takeover of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (which Richardson & Co was a subsidiary) by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 13.07.1918
- Collided with the Weka at Iron Pot and the ship sank.
- 11.12.1920
- Slightly damaged while attempting to refloat the Te Aroha at Wairoa.
- 29.08.1921
- Broke one of her shafts.
- 31.07.1923
- Slightly damaged while lying alongside the newly-built but inadequately-fendered Nelson Quay, Napier.
- 04.1926
- Stranded in the Wairoa River.
- 04.07.1929
- Grounded in the Wairoa River.
- 1926/1939
- Laid up for the majority of this period.
- 1939
- Sold to the Waiheke Passenger Service Ltd.
- 31.08.1940
- In a collision with Margaret at West Auckland.
- 1940
- Re-measured. Now 192 grt, 99 nrt.
- 1950
- Ownership transferred to the Waiheke Shipping Company Ltd.
- 08.01.1951
- Broke her shaft at Auckland.
- 1954
- Sold to Edward Barker, Waiheke Island.
- 06.1954
- Resold to Charles le Vard, Auckland.
- 10.1954
- Sold to S & S R Strongman of Coromandel.
- 1954/1955
- Vessel stripped.
- Early 1960s
- Remainder of her hulk demolished.