SS Waihora (1882) explained

SS Waihora was a 2,003-ton passenger cargo steamship built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton in 1882 for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.

Waihora stuck a rock of the coast of Tasmania in February 1886 and was holed.[1] She was sold subsequently to Koe Guan Company, Penang in 1903, to Diedrichsen & Jebsen & Company, Hamburg in 1906 and renamed Lysholt and later to H. Diedrichsen, Hamburg in 1909.

Fate

She was broken up at Shanghai in 1911.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The accident to the Waihora . The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 20 February 1886. p.14. . 18 October 2011.