Category:Kaituna (ship, 1904)

Ship

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• Built by: Osbourne Graham & Company, Sunderland
• Yard No: 123
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• Launch date: 08.10.1904
• Date of completion: 1904
• Length over all: m
• LPP: m
• Beam: m
• Draught: m
• GRT: 1,977
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• Main engine: Triple Expansion 1,000 ihp
• Speed: kn

History

• 1904 Named: Needwood for France, Fenwick & Co. Flag: UK
• 02.1905 Sold to Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Renamed: Kaituna. Used on coal and timber trades from west coast South Island ports and across the Tasman. Flag: New Zealand
• 19.10.1905 Stranded on Farewell Spit while bound from Newcastle to Wellington. Refloated herself same day.
• 12.10.1908 Lost propeller blades in the Karamea Bight on her way from Lyttelton to Greymouth. Towed into Westport by Charles Edward.
• 29.03.1929 Collided with and sank Norwegian steamship Selje off Cape Otway. Limped into Melbourne for major repairs.
• 12.1930 Laid up Auckland.
• 06.1931 Sold to by Wing Hong & Co., Hong Kong. Briefly owed by foo Hong S.S. Co. Ltd and then Dah Chung Coal Co., Shanghai. Flag: Hong Kong
• 1938 Sold to Wallem & Co. Renamed: Needwood.
• 12.1941 Captured by Japanese forces. Renamed: Kaiyo Maru. Flag: Japan
• 22.12.1942 Sunk in collision with Nichiun Maru off Seto in the Inland Sea.