Name: | MATOPPO launched as LADY STRATHCONA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 05/11/1903 |
Completed: | 05/1904 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 744 |
Dimensions: | 3947grt, 2525nrt, 360.0 x 47.5 x 26.7ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (25, 41 & 68 x 48ins), 403nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a; (1904: 118495) |
History: | |
05/1904 | Transport Canadien, Antwerp |
22/09/1904 | Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd (Bucknall Brothers); registered at London |
1905 | Union Steamship Co of New Zealand Ltd, Dunedin; renamed WAIRUNA |
17/06/1917 | Sank |
Comments: | Launched as LADY STRATHCONA for W Petersen & Co, Newcastle |
15/01/1904: Reported as sold before delivery to Transport Canadien, Antwerp | |
02/06/1917: Captured by German SMS WOLF off Sunday Islands | |
On a voyage from Auckland to San Francisco carrying meat, copra & coal | |
17/06/1917: Scuttled with explosives |
Above photo as LADY STRATHCONA is copyright of Tyne & Wear Archives
Above photo as WAIRUNA is copyright of the Alexander Turnbull Library - photo by John Dickie
Above plan & elevation as MATOPPO is copyright of Raoul & Campbell