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 & CompanyH. 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
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