SS Waihora (1882)
SS Waihora was a 2,003-ton passenger cargo steamship built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton in 1882 for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
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Builder: | William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton |
Yard number: | 264 |
Launched: | 25 November 1882 |
Fate: | Scrapped in 1911 |
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Length: | 285 ft (87 m)[1] |
Beam: | 36.2 ft (11.0 m) |
Propulsion: | Steam compound engine |
Waihora stuck a rock of the coast of Tasmania in February 1886 and was holed.[2] She was sold subsequently to Koe Guan Company, Penang in 1903, to Diedrichsen & Jebsen & Company, Hamburg in 1906 and renamed Lysholt and later to H. Diedrichsen, Hamburg in 1909.
Fate
She was broken up at Shanghai in 1911.
Notes
- "SS Waihora (1882)". Clyde built ships. Archived from the original on 20 March 2005. Retrieved 18 October 2011.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
- "The accident to the Waihora". The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 20 February 1886. p.14. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
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