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Head office, Water Street, Dunedin designed 1883
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Five directors (back) of the Union Steam Ship Company in 1881, including John Richard Jones, John Cargill, and George McLean; David and James Mills in the foreground
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Hawea run ashore at the entrance to the Grey River, 1908
Logo and monogram of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
Logo and monogram of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer. It was incorporated by James Mills in Dunedin in 1875 with the backing of a Scottish shipbuilder, Peter Denny.[1] Bought by shipping giant P&O around the time of World War I it was sold in 1972 to an Australasian consortium and closed at the end of the twentieth century.

History

https://www.mastermariners.org.au/stories-from-the-past/2778-the-union-steamship-company-of-new-zealand-ltd

https://www.theprow.org.nz/enterprise/the-union-steam-ship-company/

James Mills

James Mills had worked for Johnny Jones and his Harbour Steam Company. After Jones’ death in 1869 Mills tried twice to float a Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited without attracting enough interest from local investors but in 1875 he found backing from Scottish shipbuilder Peter Denny in return for Union Steam Ship orders for Denny's Dumbarton shipyard. The Denny-built Hawea and Taupo, both then large by local standards, arrived in mid 1875 and entered service. Union Steam Ship took over the Harbour Steam Company's vessels on 1 July 1875.[2]

Local competition

Union Steam Ship became a major shipping line dubbed "The Southern Octopus" with a near-monopoly on trans-Tasman shipping.[1] It steadily mopped up trans-Tasman and coastal shipping businesses including -

  • Anchor, Nelson 50% holding from 1908,[3] absorbed into Union in 1972,[4]
  • Black Diamond Line, Wellington and Koranui coal mine in 1885,[5]
  • Canterbury Steam, 50% holding from 1905,[5]
  • Gisborne Sheepfarmers Frozen Meat & Mercantile Company 25% holding from 1912,[5]
  • Grey Valley Coal Company, Dunedin 1888,[5]
  • H.C. Sleigh Limited, Melbourne,[5]
  • Holm, a controlling shareholding from 1930,[6]
  • Invercargill Shipping Company, Dunedin 25% holding from 1907,[5]
  • Maoriland Steamship Company, Wellington 50%[5] holding from 1915[7]
  • New Zealand Steam Ship Co from 24 June 1876, with their ships, Lady Bird, Phoebe, Taranaki and Wellington, for £47,400.[8]
  • Richardson & Co, Napier, a major shareholder, Williams & Kettle,[9] sold shares to Union in 1912[5]
  • R.S.Lamb, Sydney holding from 1909,[5] Union took over all the ships Gabriella, Kalingo, Omana and Ihumata (Kini) in 1930[10]
  • Wairau Steam Ship Company, Wellington 25% holding from 1907,[5]
  • Watchlin Shipping,[5]
  • Westport Coal Company, Dunedin 1887,[5]
  • William Holyman & Sons, Launceston 50% holding, involved in a Huddart Parker deal in 1902[11]

Trans-Tasman

In 1878 McMeckan and Blackwood, who ran a weekly service between Melbourne and New Zealand, sold Albion, Arawata, Tararua and Ringarooma to Union.[12] From 1889 there was three-way competition between Union Steam Ship, Huddart Parker and Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company (TSNCo) on the Tasmanian routes (Melbourne – Launceston, Hobart – Melbourne and Hobart – Sydney). TSNCo did not have other routes to absorb their Tasmanian losses and was bought out by USSCo in 1891. The rivalry between USSCo and Huddart Parker lasted to 1895 despite an earlier agreement in 1893. There was undercutting of fares and there were steamers shadowing each other from port to port. USSCo's Rotomahana and Mararoa would sail alongside the Miowra and Warrimoo, with other ships like the Te Anau and Manapouri sailing before and after and bracketing the Huddart Parker ships. The 1895 agreement between the two lines pooled the Auckland-Sydney profits and losses; the Melbourne-Launceston profits were divided 4/7 to USSCo and 3/7 to Huddart Parker. The Sydney-Hobart passenger trade was excluded but the cargo and stock trade was divided 2/3 to USSCo and 1/3 to Huddart Parker.Template:Sfn Mark Twain criticised travel conditions on a Union Company ship in 1897 in his travel book Following the Equator.

Mills was a UK resident after 1907 and died in London in 1936. By 1914 Union Steam Ship had 75 ships. It was the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer.[1]

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Union Steam Ship Company's 3,721 ton MV Kaimiro loading cargo in Lyttelton, New Zealand, in 1968

P&O

In 1917 P&O shareholders were asked to confirm their directors' prior purchase of Union Steam Ship with the information that USSCo had a valuable coasting trade within New Zealand, connections with India and Australia and a line of steamers running between Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The Union Steam Ship fleet was described as 74 high class steamers with a tonnage of 237,860 and of an average age of 12 years.[13][14] In November 1920, rumours surfaced that the head office of the company would shift from Dunedin to Wellington.[15] At the end of 1920, it became known that the board of directors would remain in Dunedin, but that all headquarters staff would transfer to Wellington.[16] The move happened in late 1921, with all head office functions in Wellington after the New Year holidays. About 70 staff transferred to Wellington, ending 46 years of Dunedin as the company's headquarters.[17]

Norrie Falla

With the Dunedin staff came Norrie Falla as general traffic manager. He had joined as a boy in Westport in 1898 and finished his accountancy exams in 1906. In 1910 he was put in charge of the cargoes and movements of Union's 65-strong fleet. Falla volunteered immediately for service in the 1914—1918 first world war. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1916 and returned to his former post in 1919. He succeeded David Aiken as general manager in March 1934 and was appointed chairman in January 1936 on the death of founder Sir James Mills.[18]

Falla ordered two new passenger ships and began a steady renewal of cargo ships commissioning 11 ships between 1935 and 1939.[18]

Falla also took Union Company into airlines. First in 1934 into East Coast Airways and then Cook Strait Airways in 1935.[18]

Australian National Airways ANA

Union in conjunction with Holyman's Airways and Huddart Parker set up an airline across Bass Strait which began business in September 1934. In 1935 they added Adelaide Steamship Company as a partner in the venture which was renamed Australian National Airways the following year.[18]

Union took up a 20% interest on the formation of Australian National Airways in 1936.[18]

Union Airways NAC

In 1935 Union Airways of New Zealand was formed by Union Steam Ship and it built an air service through New Zealand. Union Airways was nationalised by the government in 1947 and renamed National Airways Corporation.[18] Union Travel remained a substantial operation as travel agents and tour operators.

Tasman Empire Airways TEAL Air New Zealand

Union was instrumental in establishing this business in particular by buying the first three flying boats which began operations in April 1940. TEAL became Air New Zealand.[18]

Falla dies

During World War II, Falla returned to the army with the rank of brigadier. He was later based in London as New Zealand representative on the Ministry of War Transport. He joined the main board of P&O in 1944. On his way back to New Zealand aged 62 he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and died at sea 6 November 1945.[18]

P&O sell to TNT

Australian road transport business, Thomas Nationwide Transport, had a substantial road transport stake in New Zealand. With New Zealand investors TNT bought USSCo from P&O in 1971.[19][20][21]

In 1990 Union Steam Ship operated seven ships, and was involved in ship management, tourism, real estate and other ventures. By 2000, the Union Bulk[22] barge made its last voyage.[23]

Brierley Investments

At the end of the 20th century Brierley Investments bought all the shares, broke Union Steam Ship into components and sold up what it could.

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand owned more than 350 ships and has been the subject of a number of books.

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Steamer Express TEV Hinemoa, built in England in 1946 and scrapped in Hong Kong in 1971

Ferries

Steamer Express Wellington to Lyttelton

Union Steam Ship began regular sailings between Wellington and Lyttelton in 1895 with the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". making two round trips a week. In 1905 this became a daily service year round. In 1933 the name "Steamer Express" was adopted for the service.[24] Over the years a number of ships were used, including two Maoris, two Wahines, two Rangatiras, and a Hinemoa.[25]

Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". entered service in October 1966 and foundered and sank at the mouth of Wellington Harbour 18 months later in April 1968. The Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". entered service in 1972 and was withdrawn in 1976, bringing the Wellington–Lyttelton "Steamer Express" to an end.[24]

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Tamahine, built in 1925 and scrapped in 1962

Wellington to Picton

In what has been described as "a fatal mistake",[26] the Union Steam Ship announced in 1956 that the Tamahine was to be withdrawn from the Wellington-Picton route in 1962 and unlikely to be replaced (despite an offer of a $3 million government loan).[27] The designer of the replacement ferry the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". recalled that, "The media said the whole thing was a red herring", adding, "In their view, if the Union Steam Ship Company couldn't make the service pay, Railways definitely couldn't."[28]

Fleet

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Name Built In service Gross tonnage Notes
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1883 1883–1915 Template:GT Sunk 10 August 1915 at Scapa Flow
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1924 1924–1953 Template:GT Arrived 25 July 1953 at Clydeside for breaking up
SS Aotearoa 1915 1915 Template:GT sunk 1917 as HMS Avenger
TSS Arahura 1905 1905–1926 Template:GT
SS Atua 1906 1906–1926 Template:GT Built by David J Dunlop. Sold to Khedivial Mail in 1926.[29]
SS Awatea 1936 1936–1942 Template:GT Trans Tasman liner, sunk in 1942, as HMT Awatea
Dartford 1877 1908–1921 Template:GT Dartford was a 67 m (221.5 ft) long, iron barque, built by Mountsey & Foster, South Dock, Sunderland. In March 1908 Union bought her as a cadet ship for 12 cadets at Lyttelton, increased to 36 in 1911.[30] She was converted to a coal hulk in 1914. In 1917, she was converted back to a barque, due to wartime shipping shortages, but again laid up in Auckland Harbour as a hulk in 1921.[31] She was broken up and then beached in Boulder Bay on Rangitoto Island on 25 July 1946.[32]
SS Dingadee 1883 1890–1900 Template:GT Collier built by Royal Victoria Dock, bought from Australasian Steam, sold to Blackball Coal Co, scrapped 1925
SS Flinders 1878 1891–1900 Template:GT Built by A & J Inglis for TSNCo, which merged in 1891, sold to McIlwraith, McEacharn and in 1907 to Adelaide Steamship,[33] hulked in 1911 after fire damage and beached on 4 September 1931 at Garden Island Ships Graveyard, where she remains.[34]
Gladbrook 1877 1911–1945 Template:GT An iron, coal hulk, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., launched on 26 April 1877 at R & J Evans yard, Liverpool as County of Anglesea for W Thomas & Co, Liverpool, 1905 sold to O Pettersen and V Gustafson, Mariehamn.[35] 1911 bought by Union, converted to a hulk, able to hold 2,000 tons of coal, and renamed Gladbrook. In 1918 she was re-rigged as a barque at Port Chalmers, due to postwar shipping shortages, and sailed to San Francisco, but in 1921 was hulked again for use at Suva, in 1924 moved to Auckland, stripped and, on 19 December 1945, beached on Rangitoto Island.[36] She was replaced as a hulk by Helen Denny.[37]
SS Hawea 1875 1875–1888 721 Launched 17 February 1875 and completed 1 April 1875 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton for Union. Hawea, a sister ship of Taupo, was an iron, single-screw, 2-masted steamer, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 2-cylinder, 160 nhp engine, driving her at up to Script error: No such module "convert"..[38] In 1875 she was the first Union ship to visit Picton, later being used on the Lyttelton-Wellington-Picton-Nelson-New Plymouth-Onehunga service.[39] On 30 March 1886 she ran aground off Nelson, but was refloated on the next day's tide. She was wrecked on 12 June 1888 near New Plymouth. The wreck was removed by dredging in 1925.[38]
SS Hawea 1897 1897–1908 Template:GT A steel, single-screw steamer launched on 20 November 1896 for Union by Archibald McMillan & Son, Dumbarton, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 3-cylinder (17, 28, <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />45+1⁄2 x 42 in), Script error: No such module "convert". engine by Denny & Co.[40] On 30 October 1908, as she left Greymouth, she probably hit the bottom in heavy waves on the bar and was wrecked on the north breakwater.[41] Her remains were blown up in March 1909.[42]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1921 1921–1942 Template:GT Captured on 12 July 1942 by Imperial Japanese navy off the coast of Sri Lanka. IJN renamed it Hoki Maru and used the vessel until sunk in Operation Hailstone in Truk Lagoon
SS Hauroto 1882 1882–1915 Template:GT A steel, single-screw steamer launnched on 31 August 1882 for Union by William Denny & Bros, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 2-cylinder (38 & 68 - 45in), Script error: No such module "convert". compound engine. On 1 January 1889 she damaged King Arthur in Hobsons Bay. In 1915 she was sold to Carmichael & Clarke, Hong Kong and in 1917 to a related company, Hauroto SS Co. Ltd. She left Saigon on 26 July 1919, but never reached Hong Kong and was posted missing in a typhoon.[43] Some wreckage was found near the Paracels.[44]
Helen Denny 1866 1934–1948 Template:GT An iron, sailing ship, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., launched on 8 November 1866 by Robert Duncan & Co, for Albion Shipping[45] for the UK-Burma run,[46] but by 1872 was running between Port Glasgow and Auckland.[47] In 1874 she was reduced from full rigging to a barque and in 1882 Albion merged to form Shaw, Savill & Albion Line. In 1896 she was sold to Ferdinand Holm, Wellington and in 1913 to Paparoa Coal Co as a coal hulk. In 1934 Waimarino towed her from Wellington to Lyttelton.[48] In 1946 she was towed to Auckland.[45] On 27 April 1848 she was scuttled off Cuvier Island, being the last of Auckland's coal hulks.[49]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1946 1947–1967 Template:GT The steamer was Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., launched on 30 May 1946[50] (tenders had been sought in 1939)[51] by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd for Union's Wellington-Lyttelton Inter-island express, serving the railway pier at Lyttelton. Her 2 steam turbines powered Script error: No such module "convert". British Thomson-Houston electric motors and twin screws,[50] at up to Script error: No such module "convert".,[52] with up to 82 cars[53] and 921 passengers. After fitting out at Birkenhead, she went to Greenock,[54] left there on 21 December 1946, with 90 passengers[50] and arrived at Wellington on 26 January 1947. Her first trip to Lyttelton was on 10 February,[55] replacing Wahine.[52] Cabins were charged for by position, rather than the ship being divided into 1st and 2nd class sections.[56] A rough crossing was reported a week after her maiden voyage[57] and in 1950 a gale damaged her bridge, broke several saloon windows and she was again 8 hours late.[50] She was replaced by Wahine[58] from 23 August 1966, as she could not be readily converted to a ro-ro ferry. She was laid up at Wellington. In October 1966, though US President Lyndon Johnson stayed at Government House,[59] she was used as a hotel ship for journalists. On 23 August 1967 she was sold to Hydro Tasmania for power and accommodation at Bell Bay and renamed George H Evans.[60] Rain soon ended the drought and in 1969 she was sold to Hamersley Ore for power at Dampier.[61] After a new power station opened, she was moored offshore.[62] During Cyclone Glynis, in January 1970, she broke her moorings.[63] On 12 February 1971 Fuji Marden & Co Ltd, Hong Kong, bought her and she was towed in March by the tug Salvonia and scrapped.[50]
SS Katoa 1912 1912–1933 Template:GT Collier built by Osbourne, Graham & Co Ltd, Sunderland. Sold to Moller & Co, Shanghai (as Winifred Moller) in 1933, to Zui Kong Steamship Co Ltd, Shanghai (as Tsze Yung) in 1946, to Chinese Maritime Trust Ltd. in 1948 and broken up in Taiwan in 1958.[64]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1905 1905–1935 Template:GT
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1906 1907–1946 Template:GT
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1952 1953–1972 Template:GT
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1907 1907–1937 Template:GT
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1908 1908–1937 Template:GT Arrived 8 April 1937 at Shanghai for breaking up
SS Manapouri 1882 1882–1915 Template:GT First to have electric lights[65] Sunk 1945.[66]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1911 1911–1957 Template:GT Sold 1948 as SS Cyrenia; arrived 1957 at Savona for breaking up
SS Monowai 1890 1890–1926 3,433 Launched 11 December 1889 and completed 4 April 1890 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton for Union. Monowai was a steel, single-screw, 2-masted steamer, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 3-cylinder, 330 nhp engine, driving her at up to Script error: No such module "convert"..[38] In 1926 she was stripped to a hulk at Port Chalmers and sold to Gisborne Harbour Board, who scuttled her as a breakwater on 16 December 1926.[67]
SS Monowai 1925 1925–1960 Template:GT Ex-SS Razmak (1925–1930); sold 1960 in Hong Kong for breaking up
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1885 1885–1899 Template:GT She and sister ship, Taupo, were built by William Denny & Brothers.[68] The Ohau arrived on 14 January 1885[69] and Taupo on 10 March 1885.[70] Ohau sank whilst carrying timber and coal. She was supposed foundered in a heavy gale. Last seen off Cape Campbell on 12 May 1899. Some wreckage was found near Castlepoint. Lost with all 22 crew.[71] An inquiry into the loss dismissed claims that the ship was too low in the water.[72] A council-published heritage trail says locals still find coal on the shore near Cape Campbell, likely from the Ohau.[73]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1864 1879–1909 Template:GT Sunk 12 February 1909 off Cape Terawhiti; 75 deaths
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1930 1931–1965 Template:GT
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1971 1972–1976 Template:GT
SS Rotoiti 1898 1898–1912 Rotoiti was built for Union's Onehunga-New Plymouth service,[74] as a Script error: No such module "convert". long, Script error: No such module "convert". wide, Script error: No such module "convert". deep, steel steamer, with two 3-cylinder (13<templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄2, 20<templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄2, 31<templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄2 x 27 in) engines of Script error: No such module "convert"., driving twin screws.[75] In 1912 she was sold to Northern Steamship and renamed Manaia.[76] On 10 June 1926 she was wrecked on Slipper Island (Whakahau),[77] without loss of life.[78]
SS Rotomahana 1879 1879–1921 Template:GT The name was used by at least two other ships of the era. The first mild steel ship in the Union fleet.[79] Built by William Denny & Brothers. Scrapped in 1926.[80]
SS Southern Cross 1873 1881–1906 Template:GT Launched 5 November 1873 by J T Eltringham[81] (at Stone Quay, South Shields)[82] for Watts Bros, Napier, a schooner-rigged, iron, single-screw steamer, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 2-cylinder (18.5 & 36 × 24 in), Script error: No such module "convert". engine by Pattison & Atkinson, Newcastle driving her at up to Script error: No such module "convert".. In 1878 she was sold to Auckland Steam Ship Co Ltd and in 1881 to Union for £8,500. In 1897, to comply with local subsidy law, Union sent a staff member, Fred Cramond, to be their agent in Papeete and the ship was renamed Croix De Sud.[83] On return in 1901 she was hulked,[81] her machinery being put into the newly launched Gael in 1904.[84] On 24 April 1906 Duchess towed her to be scuttled in Cook Strait.[85]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1904 1904–1930 Template:GT Ex-RMS Port Kingston (1904–1911); sunk 12 August 1930 off Rarotonga; no death
SS Talune 1890 1891–1925 2,087 Launched 19 April 1890 at Leith and sold to Union in 1891, Talune was a steel, single-screw, 2-masted steamer, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 3-cylinder, 259 nhp engine.[86] In 1923 she was cleaned,[87] but, in May 1925,[88] was sold for dismantling by Todd & Borlase at Dunedin and on 22 January 1926 was sunk as part of a breakwater at Waikokopu.[86]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1864 1864–1881 Template:GT Sunk 29 April 1881 off Waipapa Point; 131 deaths
SS Taupo 1875 1875–1881 720 Launched 20 March 1875 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton for Union. Taupo , a sister ship of Hawea, was a single-screw, 2-masted steamer, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 2-cylinder engine. On 1 February 1879 she ran aground at the entrance to Tauranga Harbour, but was refloated on the 2 March 1881. She was wrecked on 29 April 1881 off Mayor Island after seams opened, while under tow to Auckland.[89]
SS Te Anau 1879 1880–1924 1,652 Launched 3 November 1879 and completed on 15 December 1879 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton for Union, Te Anau was a steel, single-screw steamer, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 2-cylinder, 200 hp engine. In June 1924 she was sold to Todd & Borlase, Dunedin, partly dismantled at Port Chalmers and towed to Whanganui to be scuttled as a breakwater on 23 August 1924.[90]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1912 1913–1951 Template:GT Ran aground on the Masela Island Reef off Cape Palsu in the Arafura Sea
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1966 1966–1968 Template:GT Sunk 10 April 1968 after hitting Barrett Reef during an extra-tropical cyclone; 53 deaths.
SS Waihemo 1903 1914–1918 Template:GT Cargo steamer, built by Northumberland Shipbuilding as Canada Cape, sunk by a mine in March 1918
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1882 1882–1903 Template:GT
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1907 1907–1927 Template:GT
SS Wainui 1886 1887–1927 684 Launched 2 September 1886 and completed the next month by Murray Bros, Dumbarton, for Union. Wainui was a steel, single-screw steamer, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 2-cylinder, Script error: No such module "convert". engine, built by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow.[91] From 1906 to 1908 she ran the first Wellington- Picton ferries.[39] From 1924 she ran between Auckland and Gisborne, until being laid up in June 1927, after the passenger service was ended and she was replaced by Waimea.[92] On 14 October 1929 Borlase & McKay, after stripping her at Auckland, scuttled her, as part of a breakwater at Whangaparāoa, for Mr Shakespear.[93]
SS Waipori 1901 1901-1928 1,976 GT Later renamed Tung Lee in 1937. Scuttled in Yangtse River at Zhenjiang in 1937 as blockship by Chinese Government during Japanese attacks.[94]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1882 1882–1894 Template:GT Sunk 29 October 1894 off Great Barrier Island; 140 deaths
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1901 1901–1914 Template:GT
SS Waitemata 1908 1908–1918 Template:GT Sunk 14 July 1918 in the Mediterranean
SS Waitemata 1919 1919–1932 Template:GT Launched as War Rampart 4 March 1919 by Northumberland Shipbuilding Company Ltd at Howden for the Shipping Controller. Following sea trials, Union took her over from 23 May 1919 and renamed her Waitemata, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a Script error: No such module "convert"., or Script error: No such module "convert". triple-expansion (27, 45 & 75 × 54 in) engine by North East Marine Engine Works, driving a single screw at up to 11 or Script error: No such module "convert"..[95][96] She was used for trade in the Pacific[97] and to Australia,[98] until she was laid up in Hobson Bay[99] on 25 August 1930 at Auckland, due to lack of trade.[100] In November 1932 she was sold to William Crosby & Co Pty Ltd, Melbourne,[97] and was to be renamed Willandra.[96] However, she was repaired by Mason Brothers in Auckland,[101] sold to Yamashita Shipping Company to ship scrap iron to Japan in February 1933[102] and renamed Yuki Maru. On 16 June 1944 she was sunk by USS Bream off Morotai Island,[96] in the Sumba Strait.[95]
SS Waitomo 1944 1946-1963 7209 Built in Vancouver in 1944 for the Canadian Park Steamship Company under the name Sunnyside Park, renamed Waitomo after having been sold to Union Steam Ship Company. During service with Union Steam Ship Company manned by Canadian seamen and New Zealand/Australian officers.[103]
SS Wellington 1863 1864–1881 429 Launched 24 October 1863 by Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow, for New Zealand Steam Navigation Co, Wellington and transferred to Union in 1871. Wellington was a 100-passenger, iron, single-screw steamer, Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert". x Script error: No such module "convert"., with a 2-cylinder, Script error: No such module "convert". engine, which arrived on 3 June 1864. In 1881 she was sold to Northern Steamship, initially serving Tauranga-Auckland.[104] She ran daily to Whangārei in 1900,[105] but was laid up about 1905,[106] after being used on the New Plymouth-Onehunga route.[107] 1909 G. T. Niccol converted her to a hulk at Auckland. 1913 scuttled as a breakwater at Moehau,[108] or at Whangārei.[109]
Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[110] 1900 1900–1928 Template:GT Sister ship to SS Mont-Blanc (1899)[111][112]
SS Willochra 1913 1913–1914 Template:GT Union chartered her from Adelaide Steamship in April 1913,[113] just after she had arrived in Sydney from her builders, William Beardmore, to replace Warrimoo on the Dunedin-Lyttelton-Wellington-Sydney route.[114] In September 1913 she was put on the San Francisco service,[115] until converted to a troopship in late 1914.[116]

See also

Notes

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  20. ↑ New company formed to run Tasman services Freight & Container Transportation December 1971 page 4
  21. ↑ Sale of Union SS Co Australian Transport January 1972 page 35
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  95. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  96. ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  97. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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