SS Port Lyttleton
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History | |
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Name | SS Port Lyttleton |
Builder | Workman & Clark, Belfast |
Launched | 1902 |
In service | 1902 |
Out of service | 1924 |
Fate | broken up 1924 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger / refrigerated cargo |
Tonnage | 6,444 tons |
Length | 137.2m |
Beam | 16.8m |
Propulsion | twin screw |
Speed | 12 knots (22.22 km/h) |
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Built as the Niwaru for the Tyser Line Ltd, in 1914 she was taken over by the Commonwealth & Dominion Line, London, before being requisitioned in 1916 as a troop ship and renamed SS Port Lyttleton. During January 1924 the Port Lyttelton ran aground on a sand bar at the mouth of the Tamar River, Tasmania. Made one trip as HMNZT 71 depart New Zealand in December 1916 and in June 1918 departed Sydney on a 'Single Charter' carryng 104 AIF personnel
Scrapped in Italy in 1924 following a grounding off Tasmania.