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.

SS Waihora
History
Name
  • Waihora (1882-1906)
  • Lysholt (1906-1911)
Owner
BuilderWilliam Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton
Yard number264
Launched25 November 1882
FateScrapped in 1911
General characteristics
Tonnage
Length285 ft (87 m)[1]
Beam36.2 ft (11.0 m)
PropulsionSteam compound engine

Waihora stuck a rock of the coast of Tasmania in February 1886 and was holed.[2] 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

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She was broken up at Shanghai in 1911.

Notes

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  1. ^ "SS Waihora (1882)". Clyde built ships. Archived from the original on 20 March 2005. Retrieved 18 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "The accident to the Waihora". The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 20 February 1886. p.14. Retrieved 18 October 2011.