| 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, 12.0knots |
| 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 | |
| 01/1904: Laid up at Jarrow Slake buoys, awaiting the opening of the St Lawrence River | |
| 24/09/1904: Sailed Shields as MATOPPO, having never left the Tyne other than for trials | |
| 02/06/1917: Captured by German SMS WOLF off Sunday Islands | |
| On a voyage from Auckland to San Francisco carrying meat, copra & coal | |
| Taken to the island of Raoul, 670 miles NE of Wellington, to transfer cargo | |
| 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 Collection
Above photo showing WAIRUNA captured at Raoul is copyright of the Australian War Memorial Collection
Above image as LADY STRATHCONA is copyright of Royal Museums Greenwich. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return
Above plan & elevation as MATOPPO is copyright of Raoul & Campbell
Lloyd's List, Monday, 11/01/1904