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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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