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Revision as of 16:41, 2 November 2021

HMT Matatua
HMT Matatua 2.jpg
Trove Australia National Library
HMT Matatua 4.jpg
History
Name HMT Matatua
Owner Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd, Southampton.
Builder Workman Clark & Co. Ltd, Belfast
Yard number 205
Launched 15 Jan 1904
Completed February 1904
In service 1904
Out of service 1940
General characteristics
Type Passenger / cargo
Tonnage 6,488 tons
Length 448 ft (136.55m)
Beam 56.5 ft (17.20m)
Depth 30.6 ft (9.30m)
Propulsion twin screw
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.

Soldiers carried

England to Fremantle 17 June - 8 August 1918