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Name: KAHU
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/02/1886
Completed: 03/1886
Builder: HS Edwards & Sons
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 34
Dimensions: 138grt, 99nrt, 115.0 x 19.1 x 8.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 32 x 24ins), 40nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron & Steel
Reg Number: 37116
History:
27/071886 George EG Richardson, Napier, New Zealand
1899 Richardson & Co Ltd, Napier
1920 Peter Munro, Napier
1920 Sanford Ltd, Aukland
1933 Broken up
Comments: 23/03/1886: Sailed from North Shields for Napier, New Zealand
23/07/1886: Arrived at Napier, New Zealand
1925: Partly stripped & used as a hulk
1933: Broken up at Auckland


Above painting of KAHU is by Charles Basil Norton and dated 1915

Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 23/09/1886