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Name: MATATUA
Type: Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/10/1889
Completed: 01/1890
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 15
Dimensions: 3322grt, 2173nrt, 330.0 x 41.3 x 18.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 40 & 68 x 42ins), 329nhp
Engines by: T Richardson & Sons Ltd, Hartlepool
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 96168
History:
01/1890 Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd., Southampton
1903 Australian-Rhodesian Steamship Co Ltd, Southampton; renamed RHODESIAN
1906 BJ Sutherland & Co., Newcastle
1909 Munro Shipping Co Ltd (BJ Sutherland & Co), Newcastle
1912 Sutherland Steamship Co Ltd (AM Sutherland), Newcastle
1915 Caramanian Iron Corp Ltd (L Walford & Co), London
1917 WS Miller & Co, Glasgow
16/03/1918 Sank
Comments: Laid down for William Ross but sold whilst still on the stocks
16/03/1918: Captured & scuttled by U-Boat U152, 180 miles ExS of Las Palmas
On a voyage from Barry to Sierra Leone with a cargo of coal