SS Waihora (1882)

History
Name:
  • Waihora (1882-1906)
  • Lysholt (1906-1911)
Owner:
Builder: William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton
Yard number: 264
Launched: 25 November 1882
Fate: Scrapped in 1911
General characteristics
Displacement: 2,003 gross tons, 1269nrt
Length: 285 ft (87 m)[1]
Beam: 36.2 ft (11.0 m)
Propulsion: Steam compound engine

SS Waihora was a 2,003 ton passenger cargo steamship built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton in 1882 for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.

Waihora stuck a rock of the coast of Tasmania in February 1886 and was holed.[2] She was sold subsequently to Koe Guan Company, Penang in 1903, to Diedrichsen & Jebsen & Company, Hamburg in 1906 and renamed Lysholt and later to H. Diedrichsen, Hamburg in 1909.

Fate

She was broken up at Shanghai in 1911.

Notes

  1. "SS Waihora (1882)". Clyde built ships. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  2. "The accident to the Waihora". The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 20 February 1886. p.14. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
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