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Name Official number Flag IMO
KAIPARA  114630  GBR   
Year built Date launched Date completed
1903  08/09/1903   
Vessel type Vessel description
Passenger / Cargo Refrigerated  Steel Screw Steamer  
Builder Yard Yard no
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank Clydebank  361 
 

Tonnage Length Breadth Depth Draft
7392 grt / 4741 nrt / 460.4 ft  58.2 ft  31.0 ft   
Engine builder John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank
Engine detail
2 x T3cyl (25, 42, 69 x 48in), 918nhp, 2 screws 

First owner First port of register Registration date
New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd., Plymouth  Plymouth   
Other names
 
Subsequent owner and registration history
 
Vessel history
 
Remarks
 
End year Fate / Status
1914  Gunfire 16/08/1914 
Disposal Detail
Captured by the German AMC, KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE when 170 miles S by W of Teneriffe on passage New Zealand for U.K. and sunk by gunfire and scuttling charges. 
 

 

Kaipara grounded
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Rangitoto Channel 01/1910
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