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SS Waihora (1882)

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Yard number
  
264

Beam
  
36.2 ft (11.0 m)

Length
  
87 m

Fate
  
Scrapped in 1911

Launched
  
25 November 1882

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Name
  
Waihora (1882-1906) Lysholt (1906-1911)

Owner
  
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (1882-1903) Koe Guan Company (1903-1906) Diedrichsen & Jebsen & Company H. Diedrichsen (1909-1911)

Displacement
  
2,003 gross tons, 1269nrt

Builder
  
William Denny and Brothers

SS Waihora was a 2,003 ton passenger cargo steamship built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton in 1882 for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.

Waihora stuck a rock of the coast of Tasmania in February 1886 and was holed. She was sold subsequently to Koe Guan Company, Penang in 1903, to Diedrichsen & Jebsen & Company, Hamburg in 1906 and renamed Lysholt and later to H. Diedrichsen, Hamburg in 1909.

Fate

She was broken up at Shanghai in 1911.

References

SS Waihora (1882) Wikipedia