| 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 |