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History
Name HMNZT 10 Arawa
Builder/Built 1907 Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd of Newcastle
Type Steamship
Displacement 9,372 tons
Speed unkown


Remarks

Owned by the Shaw Savill & Albion Com Ltd of Southampton. The Arawa was part of the 1st Convoy from Albany to Alexandria, carrying 1,318 NZ soldiers (most of the Wairarapa Infantry were on her) and 215 horses.

In 1928 she was sold to Bernstein, Hamburh and renamed Konigstein.

List of soldiers carried

Wilfred George Bettenay