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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| OBERON |
31588 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1854 |
1854 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Iron Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Alexander Denny, Dumbarton |
Albert Yard |
33 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 94 grt / 66 nrt / |
89.7 ft |
19.2 ft |
7.6 ft |
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| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
| 20 hp. 1-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Peter Denny & others |
Port Glasgow |
30/03/1854 |
| Other names |
| 1861 GUIDING STAR |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
10/1854 J B Risk & others, Port Albert, Victoria - reg Port Albert
1858 Captain Lyons - reg Hobart
1859 Frederick Greer, Dunedin NZ - reg Melbourne |
| Vessel history |
23/07/1861 struck a rock in Bluff Harbour
Rebuilt from the wreck and re-named GUIDING STAR |
| Remarks |
| 22 cabin and 15 steerage passengers. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1862 |
Wrecked 07/09/1862 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Went ashore in the New River Invercargill. No lives lost. |
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