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Name: WAIHEMO
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 09/10/1919
Completed: 12/1919
Builder: Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 276
Dimensions: 5627grt, 3540nrt, 399.5 x 53.0 x 32.8ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 44 & 73 x 48ins), 517nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 143908
History:
12/1919 Union Steamship Co of New Zealand Ltd, London
1934 Theofano Maritime Co Ltd (NG Livanos), Chios; renamed EVINOS
1937 Livanos Maritime Co Ltd, Chios
1950 Cia Maritima Internacional, Panama; renamed RIO
1951 Matsuoka Kisen KK, Ashiya; renamed SHOKYU MARU
1957 Nippon Suisan KK, Tokyo
1958 Broken up
Comments: Laid down as WAR BASTION for The Shipping Controller
1958: Broken up at Osaka by Taiyo Kaiho KK.


Above photo as WAIHEMO copyright of Allan C Green

Above photo as WAIHEMO copyright of the City of Vancouver Archives, Walter E Frost collection