HMNZT Orari
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History | |
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Name | HMNZT Orari |
Owner | New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd., Plymouth |
Builder | William Denny & Bros, Glasgow |
Yard number | 769 |
Launched | 19 Jun 1906 |
In service | 1906 |
Fate | scrapped at Troon 1929 |
General characteristics | |
Type | passenger / cargo |
Tonnage | 7,207 tons |
Length | 460.0 ft (140.21m) |
Beam | 60.2 ft (18.35m) |
Depth | 31.3 ft (9.53m) |
Propulsion | twin screw |
Speed | 14 knots (25.93 km/h) |
Remarks
Built for Haycraft & Westray, and from 1908 owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company. In 1914 she carried the man body of New Zealand troops (as HMNZT 6) in the first convoy travelling from Wellington to Alexandria. From 1917 - 1919 she was requisitioned as a troop ship before in 1920 becoming a cadet training ship until 1927
Scrapped in Troon during 1927.