HMT Matatua

History
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.

England to Fremantle 17 June - 8 August 1918

• Henry Thomas (Harry) Brear
• Ernest Henry Chisholm
• James Kirk