Name: | WAKANUI |
Type: | Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 15/11/1898 |
Completed: | 02/1899 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 360 |
Dimensions: | 5706grt, 3751nrt, 420.0 x 54.0 x 28.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (30, 48 & 78 x 54ins), 491nhp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 108566 |
History: | |
25/02/1899 | New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd, Plymouth |
1913 | Brodmount Steamship Co Ltd (Blue Star Line Ltd), London; renamed BRODMOUNT |
1920 | Union Cold Storage Co Ltd (Blue Star Line (1920) Ltd), London |
1920 | Renamed STUARTSTAR |
04/10/1923 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 04/10/1923: Wrecked on a breakwater at the entrance to the New Waterway |
On a voyage from Zarate to Bremerhaven with a cargo of frozen meat |
Above photo as WAKANUI is copyright of the Royal Museums Greenwich. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return
Above photo as WAKANUI is copyright of the Royal Museums Greenwich
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Above photo as BRODMOUNT is copyright of the Blue Star Archives
Above photo as STUARTSTAR is copyright of the Blue Star Archives
Shields Daily News, Wednesday, 16/11/1898