SS Wairuna
SS Wairuna, originally called D/S Schneefels, then SS Gibraltar and SS Polescar, was a cargo steamship that was launched in Germany in 1913. She had a varied career spanning three decades under successive German, British and New Zealand owners before being scuttled in the North Atlantic in 1945.
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SS Wairuna
SS Wairuna, originally called D/S Schneefels, then SS Gibraltar and SS Polescar, was a cargo steamship that was launched in Germany in 1913. She had a varied career spanning three decades under successive German, British and New Zealand owners before being scuttled in the North Atlantic in 1945.
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SS Wairuna, originally called ...... in the North Atlantic in 1945.
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1945-10-30
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1914-01-01
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1.28016e+2
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1.712976e+1
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1913-11-13
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Approximate position of Wairunas wreck
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*signal code QKJS :
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*UK offi ...... TQVF :
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*signal code GNXR :
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the British territory of Gibra ...... n of South Island, New Zealand
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* Bremen
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* London
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*tonnage under deck 5,478
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55.5 -11.0
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SS Wairuna, originally called ...... in the North Atlantic in 1945.
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SS Wairuna
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*D/S Schneefels (1914)
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*SS Gibraltar (1914–16)
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*SS Polescar (1916–19)
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*SS Wairuna (1919–45)
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