SS Whangape
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History | |
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Name |
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Owner |
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Builder | Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough |
Yard number | 470 |
Launched | 16 December 1899 |
Completed | 1 March 1900 |
Honours and awards |
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Fate | Scrapped in 1935 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 2,931 GRT |
Length | 320 ft (98 m) |
Beam | 44.8 ft (13.7 m) |
Depth | 15.3 ft (4.7 m) |
Installed power | Triple expansion steam engine |
Whangape was a cargo ship measured at 2,931 gross register tons (GRT), built in 1899 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough. [1] The vessel was constructed for the British Maritime Trust as Adriana, sold while on the slips to Elder, Dempster & Company and renamed Asaba. [2] Her engine was built by T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool. [3]
"Whangape" (pronounced: fun gah' pay) is a Māori word meaning "waiting for the inside of the pipi." [4] The pipi is a bivalve mollusk native to New Zealand. Whangape was also the sister ship to SS Mont-Blanc, [5] [6] the munitions vessel under French registry that collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo on 6 December 1917 in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada resulting in the devastating Halifax Explosion.
The vessel was completed on 1 March 1900 and sold to the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. [7] After being chartered by the Royal Australian Navy, she took part in operations against the German colonies in the Pacific with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) during the First World War in 1914 and subsequently returned to her owners. Whangape was sold in 1928 to Chun Young Zan (Moller & Co) and renamed SS Nanking.
Nanking was scrapped in China in 1935.
SS Whangape
| |
History | |
---|---|
Name |
|
Owner |
|
Builder | Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough |
Yard number | 470 |
Launched | 16 December 1899 |
Completed | 1 March 1900 |
Honours and awards |
|
Fate | Scrapped in 1935 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship |
Tonnage | 2,931 GRT |
Length | 320 ft (98 m) |
Beam | 44.8 ft (13.7 m) |
Depth | 15.3 ft (4.7 m) |
Installed power | Triple expansion steam engine |
Whangape was a cargo ship measured at 2,931 gross register tons (GRT), built in 1899 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough. [1] The vessel was constructed for the British Maritime Trust as Adriana, sold while on the slips to Elder, Dempster & Company and renamed Asaba. [2] Her engine was built by T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool. [3]
"Whangape" (pronounced: fun gah' pay) is a Māori word meaning "waiting for the inside of the pipi." [4] The pipi is a bivalve mollusk native to New Zealand. Whangape was also the sister ship to SS Mont-Blanc, [5] [6] the munitions vessel under French registry that collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo on 6 December 1917 in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada resulting in the devastating Halifax Explosion.
The vessel was completed on 1 March 1900 and sold to the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. [7] After being chartered by the Royal Australian Navy, she took part in operations against the German colonies in the Pacific with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) during the First World War in 1914 and subsequently returned to her owners. Whangape was sold in 1928 to Chun Young Zan (Moller & Co) and renamed SS Nanking.
Nanking was scrapped in China in 1935.