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SS Wairuna
German cargo steamship launched in 1913 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SS Wairuna, originally called D/S Schneefels, then SS Gibraltar and SS Polescar, was a cargo steamship that was launched in Germany in 1913. She had a varied career spanning three decades under successive German, British and New Zealand owners before being scuttled in the North Atlantic in 1945.
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![]() The "Wairuna" during World War 1 | |
History | |
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Name | |
Namesake | the British territory of Gibraltar (1914–16); Wairuna in the Otago region of South Island, New Zealand (1919–45) |
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Operator |
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Port of registry | |
Builder | Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft[1] |
Yard number | 334[2] |
Launched | 13 November 1913[2] |
Completed | 1 January 1914[1][2] |
Out of service | 30 October 1945[2] |
Identification | |
Fate | scuttled[2] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship[1] |
Tonnage | |
Length | 420 ft (130 m)[1] |
Beam | 56.2 ft (17.1 m)[1] |
Draught | 25.9 ft (7.9 m)[2] |
Depth | 29.6 ft (9.0 m)[1] |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine; single screw[1] |
Speed | |
Crew | 72[4] |
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