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Photographer:
Gordy [ View profile ]
Title:
Waimea
Photo Category:
General Cargo Ships Built Before 1940 (under 3000gt)
Added:
Sep 22, 2012
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Image Resolution:
2,691 x 1,300

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WAIMEA (1909)
Base data at 1 July 1917. Compiled February 2009
* indicates entries changed during P&O Group service.

Type Passenger/cargo ship
P&O Group service 1917-1939
P&O Group status Owned by subsidiary company
Former name(s)
Registered owners*,
managers* and operators*
Anchor Shipping & Foundry Ltd

Builders Mackie & Thomson Ltd
Yard Glasgow
Country UK
Yard number 386

Registry Nelson, NZ
Official number 93993
Signal letters
Call sign
Classification society Lloyd’s Register
Gross tonnage* 454 grt
Net tonnage* 207 nrt
Deadweight
Length 45.90m (150.6ft)
Breadth 7.92m (26.0ft)
Depth 3.03m (9.9ft)
Draught
Engines 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Engine builders Ross & Duncan
Works Glasgow
Country UK

Power 100 nhp
Propulsion Twin screw
Speed 9 knots

Passenger capacity
Cargo capacity
Crew
Employment

Photo Credits: Photo Supplied by the Late Don Ross

Cheers and GB

Gordy

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Ty John, I am glad I have post a photo that has a connection between you and your grandfather. Good one. I have amended the info, I think its all correct now. Ta

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Hi, There is a good photograph of WAIMEA (1909) in Union Fleet by Ian Farquhar.
Your photograph shows it in Anchor Company colours. The NZS vessel WAIMEA (1868) was a three masted sailing vessel, ship rigged. Its fastest passage London - Auckland was 76 days. As it happens, my Grandfather was Master of WAIMEA in 1929/30 when it was sailing for the USS Co. Kind regards, John

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Hi John, I have been trying to get another pic of her to see if there is any comparison to the details you posted, I think you are right but the tonnage doesnt seem to go with it, the waimea of 1909 shows only 454 tons http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/unionnz.shtml she seems a little bigger than that, more like the 848 tons of the earlier one...but I still think she compares more to the details you posted...I have changed the details in the meantime, and will keep my eyes open for any images of the other vessel. TY

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There would be a hell of a fight if they needed to use that lifeboat!

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I think that this is a photo of the vessel WAIMEA built in 1909 by Mackie & Thomson, Glasgow for Anchor Shipping and Foundry of Nelson NZ. It was sold to The Union Company of New Zealand in 1928 and resold back to Anchor in 1935. The Union company acquired it yet again in 1939 to use its boiler in the WINGATUI. WAIMEA was scuttled in Cook Strait in 1939. I look forward to all your posts. Kind regards, John

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Yes, quite a deckload! mrdot.

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Something like that you can see now only in like India on trains.
But what a marvelous ship!

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