1906-27
7207 gross tons. Lb: 460’7″ x 60’2″ (140.4 x 18.4 metres). Passenger Cargo steamship built by W Denny & Bros, Dumbarton for Haycraft & Westray. Twin screw, triple expansion engine making 14 knots. 1908 owned by New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.
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TRANSPORT VOYAGE
………1914 as HMNZT 06 departed Wellington New Zealand with Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment (East Coast Squadron and 2 Troops), surplus horses from other transports, 16 Officers, Naval Transport Officer, Medical Officers, Chaplain. 269 Men and 728 Horses
1st November 1914 assembled with the first convoy at King George’s Sound, Albany Western Australia in transporting the First Detachment of the Australian and New Zealand Imperial Expeditionary Forces
Post Hostilities
Scrapping commenced 18 January 1927 at Troon
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