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Name | HMT Matatua |
Builder/Built | 1904 Workman Clark, Belfast |
Type | Passenger / cargo steamship (twin screw) |
Displacement | 6,488 tons |
Speed | 13 knots |
Remarks
Built for the Shaw Savill & Albion Line. Known in 1918 as HMNZT 111 Matatua, she carried 497 New Zealand reinforcements to the UK, arriving on 5 Dec 1918.
After the war she was returned to Shaw Savill & Albion before being sold in 1928 to A. Bernstein and renamed Ilsenstein. Scuttled in Skerry Sound, Scarpa Flow on 18 Feb 1940.