History:
1911-
1940 11,445 tons, Twin Screw, Triple expansion engines, 502x62 ft.
Built
1911 by W Denny at Dumbarton
for the New Zealand Shipping Company, Official No 124590.
Launched
by Mrs Arthur Rhodes, 31.05.1911. Newspaper
story
Cargo
and passenger ship, 60 first class berths, 90 second and 130 third class.
"Order
6 April 1910 / launch 31 May 1911 / left 22 August / delivered 8 September 1911
Final price £176,102 9s 4d." (P.
Plowman 1981, Passenger Ships of Australia and New Zealand Vol 1, Collins,
Auckland.)
She
was first registered to GT Haycraft and TR Westray and not transferred to the
NZSC until 2015. Perhaps they were financiers and initially retained
ownership.
Built for the UK-NZ round the world route. Operated that route until
1933. On
the cross- Pacific leg she often used to call at Pitcairn (See
Pitcairn
and RMS Remuera).
-
18
February 1912: Collided with the steamer Niobe off the Lizard.
-
July
1916: First
New Zealand Shipping Company ship to transit the Panama Canal (opened 1914).
- Until the canal routing she
operated eastwards round the Cape of Good Hope and the Horn homewards. This 1914 Remuera photo of an iceberg in the
South Pacific must have been taken then.
(thumbnail).
Another from 1914. 
(thumbnail)
- Her
near sister ship Rotorua
(thumbnail) (same dimensions but triple screws), built 1910, was
sunk by submarine torpedoes 22 March 1917 in the English Channel.
- 14 August 1917 until 19
February 1919 Taken up as a troopship under the Liner Requisition Scheme
- On 9 Oct 1919 there was
a
riot on board when operating as a troopship returning troops to New Zealand.
- 1920: Southampton new
British home port.
- Converted from coal to
oil in 1921. First
oil-fired ship on a direct route to New Zealand. The refit also added an extra
deck. Re-measured.
- 1922 Collision with SS
Marengo
(thumbnail) near Weymouth. Passengers taken off by SS Victoria 
(thumbnail)
The Admiralty Court subsequently
apportioned blame 2/3 to the Marengo and 1/3 to Remuera. Source
Debris on the deck after
the collision. The lifeboat appears to be stove in. Photo courtesy of Kim
and Don Sheridan - collected by Charles Sheridan, father of Don, who was
on the voyage. |
"HMS Barham diving
party placing collision mats under RMS Remuera."
|
"21 Jul 1922 - It
was reported at Portland at 5am that the 11,200 ton NZSC steamer REMUERA,
(built in 1911) bound from Southampton for Pitcairn Island and Wellington,
has been in collision with the MARENGO (6,300 tons and built in 1910) of
the Ellerman's Wilson Line, 15 miles SW of Start Point. The REMUERA was
badly damaged and was subsequently brought into Portland Harbour with the
assistance of tugs. She was beached on mud flats to enable an inspection
and temporary repairs. Two Weymouth steamers took off the passengers - no
casualties. The MARENGO sustained little damage and continued on her
passage from New York to Hull. The passengers, including 446 emigrants,
were taken by train to Southampton."
There are more
collision photos here.
Remuera had a
special place in the lives of Pitcairn Islanders. On July 17th, 1922, the
Pitcairn island Internal Committee decided to give Captain Cameron a gift
of a bureau made of native timber. Vieder Young, Elliot Christian,
Calvert Warren and George Warren were those appointed to make it. The
bureau was presented to Remuera on January 13th, 1923 when the Remuera
next stopped there. (Information: Timothy Young, descendent of both Vieder
Young and George Warren.) The bureau is still in the possession of
Cameron's family. 
-
the bureau - really more of a dresser (thumbnail)
Picture courtesy
of David Grantham taken by his father in 1935, aboard the Remuera, of
Pitcairn Islanders trading. Hand made wooden walking sticks were a common
item.
- In 1926 the Corinthic
raced the Remuera outbound to NZ and the ships were virtually in sight
of each other all the way.
- 1926: Suffered a fire
in No.1 ‘tween deck.
- 1927: Re-measured. Now
11,383 grt, 7,246 nrt. Accommodation further reconstructed with 20
additional cabins on the old boat deck and the boats raised.
- After 1933 all accommodation
re-graded to a two classes, 200 passengers, from the earlier three
classes.
- In a 1935 London
sailing there was both cabin and tourist classes. She stopped at Curacao
on that voyage. The trip brochure said the round fare was; First Class from £140,
Cabin Class from £112.
-
Remuera
was sunk
by aerial torpedoes off Scotland by German aircraft - August 26th 1940 inbound
to UK on her 74th trip - without casualties.
-
Another
history
About
the NZSCo Ship
List
Panama Canal New Limits (after the
2016 new lock opening)
|
Existing
Panamax ships |
New
Panamax ships |
| Length |
294.13
m |
366
m |
| Beam |
32.31
m |
49
m |
| Draft
(TFW) |
12.04
m |
15.2
m |
| TEU |
Approx.
5,000 |
Approx.
13,000 |
"Despite
that shipping and commodities players estimate that the new set of locks will
mostly influence Asian-American container trade routes (Containerships <
13,000 TEU), tanker and bulker routes are also expected to be considerably
affected, since partially loaded vessels of up to 180,000 DWT (Capesize
bulkers and Suezmax tankers) will be able to transit the new enlarged Canal."
source
The
largest container ships are now over 20,000 TEUs.
The
Name
Remuera
is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is named after a small volcanic
cone - one of many
that dot Auckland. The name is a Maori one - more properly Remuwera - which
translates as ...
"
‘burnt
edge’ or ‘the burnt hem of a garment’. This relates to an incident in
the 1700’s when a young Hauraki chieftainess visiting Kiwi Tamaki with a
Hauraki chief, was killed and eaten by the Waiohua inhabitants of the pa. The
name of ‘Remuwera’ was originally given to the hill itself, although a
contraction of this name – ‘Remuera’, has since been applied to the area
in general." Source
When
the ship was built it was a suburb with a built up southern area near the
railway and northern slopes with large houses interposed with some remaining
farmland. It is now all built up.
Remuera as it was about the time RMS Remuera was launched
Photographs:
More
pics:
Some Trivia (Some of the
souvenirs may be from the succeeding Remuera):
Trip map given to passengers,
with Remuera on trials photo 
Greetings
card 
Officers
Belt Buckle -
1913
Menu (Thumbnail) 
So what are
Stanley Cakes?
Elevation
Drawing (Thumbnail) 
Deck Plan (Thumbnail) 
Brochure from
1935 Voyage
(Thumbnails)
- includes Passenger List - with George Bolt - pioneer
aviator and, Sir Harold
Beauchamp, father of Katherine
Mansfield, the pen name of Kathleen Beauchamp, born near Wellington in
1888, third daughter of Annie (Dyer) and Hal (later Sir Harold) Beauchamp.
Another notable
on the voyage is L
D Austin who was a musician.
|
1915 Passenger List
|
1935 Passenger List
|
1912 Log -
thumbnail
Source
1913 3rd class embarkation
notice. (Thumbnail)
The End:
|
"Remuera, sunk off
Kinnaird Head,
11445grt, L485' B62.3' D41', torpedoed 26/8/1940
The Plymouth liner Remuera was built by W. Denny at Dumbarton in 1911 for the New Zealand
Shipping Co.
Homeward-bound from Wellington in New Zealand with 4801 tons of refrigerated
cargo and 1646 tons of general cargo, she was sunk by a direct hit from an
aerial torpedo about 12 miles North of Peterhead when the ship was attacked by
four Heinkel 115
torpedo bombers and eight Ju-88
aircraft based at Stavanger, Norway.
All 93 crew and one gunner were saved, some by Fraserburgh lifeboat."
She had departed Wellington
on July 12th 1940 for London with cargo only. After transiting the Panama Canal
she joined a convoy at Bermuda, sailing on August 11th (BHX
65). After leaving Halifax it was designated HX
65. On August 25th the
convoy lost ships to submarine torpedoes off the Hebrides and again early on the
26th. Remuera assumed the role of Commodore's ship that day when the previous Commodore's
ship was lost. She later had a near miss from an aircraft bomb but was torpedoed a few
minutes later. She sank stern first resting for a while with her stern on the
bottom and bow in the air before sinking completely.
(S.D. Walters, 1949, Ordeal by Sea. The New Zealand Shipping Company in the
Second World War. Published by the Company, London)
August 1940 was the height
of the Battle of Britain. While it was mostly fought over south east England there were
raids from Norway and Denmark to eastern Britain, but after a raid on August 15
with severe losses the Luftwaffe never again attacked on-shore in this area in daylight.
The traffic was not all one
way. Four squadrons of RAF Hudsons raided German shipping on the Norwegian coast
and occasionally bombed targets in Norway, which had fallen to the Germans in
June.
Her loss does not seem to
have registered in New Zealand newspapers nor ,as far as I have seen in British
ones. Perhaps it was small news in a Britain under aerial siege, but she was a
well known ship in New Zealand. More likely given there was no loss of life that
the news was suppressed.
|
Location of the Wreck
(Courtesy Bob Baird)
Another Account of the
Sinking
'We just drifted away from
the ship and lay there and watched as she slowly went down.
.... She slowly filled
up from the stern and the last I saw of her, from the bridge up she was
vertical and she just slowly went down. In those days at least, the ship was
your home, and I'll never forget the feeling when of seeing my home disappear
under the waves.'
Marine engineer Lionel
Hodgson's recollection of the torpedoing of his ship, the SS Remuera - from
Neill Atkinson, 2005, Hell or High Water: New Zealand Merchant Seafarers
Remember the War. Harper Collins, Auckland.
The book gives some more
detail on the sinking: The plane approached from 30 degrees off the port
bow. The torpedo hit on the bulkhead between the two rear holds, (Nos 4 and 5).
Hodgson thinks she might have survived being holed in one hold but not two.
There were no passengers on board. The crew in Hodgson's lifeboat were rescued
by a sloop
Egret and delivered to Peterhead.
Later in the war Egret
became the first ship ever sunk by a guided missile, in the Bay of Biscay.
Wreck
Information
Courtesy Jim
Burke: (From a
dive, 2002): "All the accommodation is gone with the starboard side lying on
top of the port side and her beam reduced to about 3 to 4m."
There is a
great dive
website about the wreck. It is now privately owned by a group of enthusiasts
who want it left intact. They are progressively mapping the wreck - which is one
of the largest in NE Scotland.
"The wreck is lying
on her port side, reasonably well intact but with her starboard side collapsed
reducing her beam to around 3m. Most of her superstructure has gone but
she is still recognisable from photographs.
The bow line is intact,
with a massive anchor hanging towards the seabed. Heading sternwards,
her hull is fairly intact but flattened, here and there, massive cracks allow
an uninterrupted view of her holds. Her huge fore-mast lies out on the
seabed. "
CAD representation of the wreck by Tony Ray,
2005, courtesy Jim Burke.
Other views (thumbnails).
Sea Floor Sonar Scans:
Thumbnails - Courtesy Phillip
Copland, taken from MRV
Alba na Mara. Rights to re-use reserved.
The
Wrecksite page on Remuera
Vimeo
video of a dive on the wreck (need to join to view - free) - Neil Masson.
Captains:
1912
- 1917: H.E. Greenstreet
1919 - 1921: James John Cameron 
(thumbnail)
1921:
Cainston
1922
- 1929: J.J. Cameron
1929:
A.W. McKellar
1929-30: H. Barnett
1930-31 H.J. Wild (or Wilde in another source - initials H.W. in another))
1930-31:
Edward Holland
1931:
H.T. Wells
1932-35:
Edward Holland
1935-37: F.W. Robinson
1937-38:
C.B. Lamb
1938-40: F.W. Robinson
(the
dates are voyage starts)
Voyages:
At commencement Remuera
made slightly less than three return voyages a year. During the first world war the annual voyages dropped to two, constrained by the requirements of
convoys and the congestion in British ports. In peacetime once the
Panama Canal had opened, Remuera achieved 3 return trips to New Zealand a year.
Some of the dates in the
table are from British emigration records. These seem to be filing dates
rather than actual dates and may be a day or two late. Some advertised
dates for the first world war sailings from Britain are a long way out, no
doubt caused by having to wait for convoys and some perhaps some disinformation for security.
On some Panama routed
sailings the ship called at Curacao.
| Voyage
No. |
Depart
|
Departure
Date
|
Arrive |
Arrival
Date |
Notes |
| 1 |
London /Plymouth
|
Sept 28/30, 1911
|
Wellington
|
Nov 11 1911
|
Maiden voyage. Passenger
list. Papers
Past account of voyage.
|
| 2 |
London /Plymouth
|
February 16/17, 1912
|
NZ
|
|
Collision with Niobe
|
| 3 |
London
|
July 26, 1912
|
NZ
|
|
Passenger
list
Includes
À. E.G. Rhodes
- former Mayor of Christchurch. Mrs Rhodes launched the ship the previous
year.
|
| 3R |
Wellington
|
October 17 1912
|
Gravesend
|
Nov 27 1912
|
|
| 4 |
London Tilbury
Dock /Plymouth
|
December 21/22 1912
|
Wellington
|
|
|
| 4R |
NZ
|
|
Plymouth
|
April 15 1913
|
Times 16 Apr 1913: “Return
of Surgeon Atkinson – Surgeon E. Atkinson, R.N., a member of Captain Scott’s
Antarctic expedition, arrived at Plymouth yesterday on board the New Zealand
Shipping Company’s steamer Remuera. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Wilson, widow of Dr. Wilson, who died with Captain Scott. Mrs. Wilson
had gone to New Zealand to meet her husband.”
Dinner
menu from this voyage
|
| 5 |
Gravesend / Plymouth
|
May 5/7 1913
|
Wellington
|
June 24 1913
|
Via Tenerife, Cape Town,
Hobart.
|
| 5R |
|
|
|
September 13 1913
|
|
| 6 |
London / Plymouth
|
September 25 / 27 1913
|
Wellington
|
November 8 1913
|
Via Hobart - Scarlet fever
outbreak on board - one death.
Michelle Sim's
great-grandfather John Bachem was on this voyage. He is pictured on the ship
2nd from the right at the back. She would love to know the others in the
pic. - response to the webmaster. She has also supplied from her family
papers, the embarkation notice in the trivia section above.
(thumbnail)
|
| 6R |
|
|
|
|
|
| 7 |
London
|
February 20 1914
|
Wellington 7:30 am Monday,
6 April 1914; and Lyttleton 1:30 pm, Friday, 17 April 1914.
|
|
There was a Biscay Bay storm that she weathered on this trip (thumbnail) Thanks
to Dave Barker who would like any further information on this voyage. Dave Barker
dbarker2@columbus.rr.com
|
| 7R |
Wellington
|
May 7 1914
|
London
|
|
A South Pacific iceberg
from this voyage. (thumbnail)
|
| 8 |
London
|
July 9 1914
|
|
|
The last peacetime sailing
(war declared by Britain August 4). Advertised as via Cape Town. Relevant to
early war voyages is the action
of the German Cruiser Leipzig which raiding British shipping of west and
southern South America from September 1914 onward. The German East Asia Squadron
was in the area and defeated a British force at the Battle of Coronel
on 1 Nov 1914, before sailing to the Falklands.
|
| 8R |
|
|
|
November 4 1914
|
|
| 9 |
London / Plymouth
|
Nov 27 1914
|
NZ
|
|
|
| 9R |
|
|
London
|
March 25 1915
|
 Incident on the
voyage - German raider? (Thumbnail) Source
|
| 10 |
London / Plymouth
|
May 5 1915
|
Wellington
|
|
Via Cape Town |
| 10R |
Wellington
|
July 15 1915
|
London
|
|
|
| 11 |
London / Plymouth
|
October 17 1915
|
Wellington
|
|
|
| 11R |
Auckland
|
|
|
|
Troops loading in
Auckland on Dec 7th caused a disturbance calling members of the crew
shirkers. (War service avoiders) Source.
Conscription did not start until 1916 after which there was intense
feeling about fairness of the call to service, with many seeking protected
occupations - like seamen - or working passage to avoid the call up. This
is more likely to be patriotic volunteers feeling others were not sharing
their load.
|
| 12 |
London / Plymouth
|
March
25 / 29, 1916
|
Lyttleton
|
|
Passenger
list
À. E.G. Rhodes again.
CHASED
BY RAIDERS.
REMUERA'S TWO ESCAPES.
ENEMY SHIPS TRICKED.
Hobart, May 15. The captain of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Remuera reports
that when in the vicinity of; Lisbon he was chased by the German raider
Moewe. The Remuera sent out -a bogus wireless message giving
the- ship's position, and, adding that a auspicious steamer was
following. The Moewe grew alarmed and made off.
The Remuera had a similar experience off Monte Video, and
escaped the "German auxiliary cruiser Kron Prinz Wilhelm by a similar
ruse.
(Source)
|
| 12R |
Wellington
|
|
|
|
New York Times, August
20, 1916.
Another source:
15.07.1916:
Made the first NZS passenger sailing through the Panama Canal, bound
Wellington to London.
The canal opened in
August 1914 so the two year delay before a British ship passed seems
extraordinary. It is perhaps explained by Britain being in dispute with
the USA over canal fees - the canal opening with a zero charge for USA
ships trading between the east and west coasts of the USA. This was quite
unsustainable for this was the major traffic.
|
| 13 |
London / Plymouth
|
September ? /1916
|
|
|
Advertised via Panama.
First visit to Pitcairn October 24th. She carried mail there. Pitcairn
visits were mostly made on outward journeys until 1923, then either
inwards or outwards, but from 1936 reverted to outwards.
|
| 13R |
|
|
|
January 20 1917
|
|
| 14 |
Plymouth
|
March 10 1917
|
|
|
|
| 14R |
|
|
|
July 29 1917
|
|
| 15 |
Plymouth
|
August 27 1917
|
|
|
|
| 15R |
|
|
|
|
|
| 16 |
Plymouth
|
March 14 1918
|
Auckland
|
|
Initially in convoy -
stops Sierra Leone and Capetown. Carrying mostly repatriated soldiers but
with some civilians.
|
| 16R |
Wellington
|
June 5, 1918 |
Liverpool |
July
31, 1918 |
 Troop
Ship Number 105 38th Reinforcements - Commander Colonel E. H.
Saunders An printed voyage record The Remuerian was produced. Copy
in Auckland Museum Library |
| 17 |
Liverpool |
September 7, 1918 |
Wellington |
October
23, 1918 |
Troop
Ship Number 191 John
Daniel passenger. WW1 fighter ace Harold
Beamish was a passenger. |
| 17R |
NZ
|
December
11, 1918 |
|
January
29 1919 |
|
| 18 |
Plymouth
|
March
17 1919 |
Auckland |
5
May 1919 |
The
arrival in Auckland on 5 May 1919 was the subject of a half day holiday declared
by the Mayor to mark the return of NZ troops lead by Brigadier General G
S Richardson. Source
Source
There were 524 all ranks aboard, Source
together with 121 wives and 38 children. The ship was showered with
confetti by a plane from the Kohimarama flying school. Source |
| 18R |
|
|
|
|
|
| 19 |
Plymouth
|
September
12, 1919 |
Auckland |
26
October 1919 |
via
Panama. Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Mackesy was a passenger - diary at http://nzmr.org/diary3.htm
There were 631 all ranks and 70 wives aboard. Source.
Riot on board.
Also on board was one of the largest shipments of war trophy arms made to
New Zealand (Cooke and Maxwell 2013 Great Guns Appendix 1). |
| 19R |
|
|
Southampton |
January
18 1920 (Expected) |
|
| 20 |
Southampton
|
March
13 1920 |
Auckland |
|
|
| 20R |
|
|
|
August
2 1920 |
|
| 21 |
Southampton |
September
30, 1920 |
Wellington |
November
16 1920 |
Stephen
Smith, bramblesmiths@btinternet.com,
is researching 1920's voyages of the Remuera and is interested in contact
from anyone with a like interest. A
passenger was Mary Anne Rhodes of part Maori descent, a relative of the
person who launched the ship. The remarkable story of her family can be
found in Simon Best's "Frontiers - A Colonial Dynasty"
2013. |
| 21R |
|
|
|
|
Refit at the end of this
voyage. |
| 22 |
Southampton |
March
5 1921 |
|
|
|
| 22R |
Wellington |
May
25 1921 |
|
|
A passenger on this voyage
published Travels Abroad in 1923
with an account of this voyage. An extract by David Ransom is linked.
(thumbnail).
|
| 23 |
Southampton |
August
18 1921 |
|
|
|
| 23 |
Southampton |
February
20 1922 |
|
|
|
| 24 |
Southampton |
July
20
1922 |
|
- |
Not
completed - collision with Marengo |
| 25 |
Southampton |
December
14, 1922 |
Auckland |
|
|
| 26 |
Southampton |
May
10 1923 |
Auckland |
June
1923 |
Including
a party of over 100 British naval ratings and officers to crew HMS
CHATHAM and PHILOMEL.
A load of corrugated iron was dropped at Pitcairn on 5 June - the islanders
had given Captain Cameron funds to buy this on his previous visit. Source |
| 27 |
Southampton |
September
20, 1923 |
Auckland |
|
Loading
There is a published diary commencing with this voyage - which is not in
any NZ library:
ANON Round the World 1924 - SS. Remuera Ulimaroa Orsova
Mongolia. Privately Printed, 1924. |
| 27R |
|
|
London |
|
A
passenger list is here |
| 28 |
Southampton |
January
17, 1924 |
Wellington |
|
|
| 28R |
|
|
|
|
|
| 29 |
Southampton |
May
22 1924 |
Auckland |
|
|
| 29R |
Wellington
|
July
1924 |
Plymouth |
|
Carrying
the All Blacks on their second tour of the British Isles. George Nepia was
the star player. Departure
photo |
| 30 |
Southampton |
September
25 1924 |
Wellington |
|
|
| 30R |
Auckland
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
Southampton |
January
29 1925 |
|
|
|
| R |
Wellington
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
Southampton |
June
5 1925 |
Wellington |
|
|
| R |
Auckland
|
|
|
|
|
|
Southampton |
October
23 1925 |
|
|
|
| R |
Auckland
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
Southampton |
March
12, 1926 |
Auckland |
|
list
holder |
|
Southampton |
July
30 1926 |
|
|
|
| R |
Wellington
|
|
London |
|
|
|
Southampton |
Dec
4 1926 |
Wellington |
|
|
| R |
Wellington
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
Southampton |
May
6 1927 |
Wellington |
|
|
|
Southampton |
September 30, 1927 |
Wellington and Lyttleton |
|
Bruce
Blair bhb@ix.net.nz .
has a passenger list for this sailing he is happy to share. |
| R |
Auckland
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
Southampton |
March
25 1928 |
Auckland |
|
|
| R |
Wellington
|
|
Southampton |
|
With
NZ Olympic team for July 1928 games in Amsterdam. |
|
Southampton |
July
18 1928 |
|
|
|
|
Southampton |
Nov
23 1928 |
Wellington |
|
|
| R |
Wellington
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
Southampton |
April
12 1929 |
|
|
|
| R |
Wellington
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
Southampton |
August
30 1929 |
Auckland |
|
|
| R |
Wellington
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
Southampton |
January
17 1930 |
Auckland |
|
|
| R |
Wellington
|
|
Southampton |
|
|
|
London |
June
13 1930 |
|
|
Southampton |
| R |
Wellington |
|
Southampton |
|
|
| 47 |
London
|
October 24,
1930 |
Wellington |
November
30, 1930 |
Southampton,
Curacao, Panama |
| 47R |
Wellington
|
January 3,
1931 |
London |
February
9, 1931 |
Pitcairn,
Panama, Curacao |
| 48 |
Southampton |
March
13, 1931 |
Wellington |
April
19, 1931 |
Passengers
R
Law, W Law, J Law |
| 49 |
Southampton |
July 25, 1931 |
Auckland |
September
5, 1931 |
|
| 50 |
Southampton |
Dec
18, 1931 |
Wellington |
|
|
| 51 |
London |
May
5, 1932 |
NZ |
|
|
| 52 |
London |
August
25, 1932 |
Wellington |
|
|
| 53 |
London |
December 15,
1932 |
Wellington |
January
22, 1933 |
Plymouth,
Curacao, Panama |
| 53R |
Auckland
|
February 18,
1933 |
London |
March
28, 1933 |
Panama |
| 54 |
London |
April 6, 1933 |
Wellington |
May
15, 1933 |
Plymouth,
Curacao, Panama |
| 54R |
Auckland
|
June 10, 1933 |
London |
July
18, 1933 |
Panama,
Curacao |
| 55 |
London |
August 24,
1933 |
Auckland |
September
29, 1933 |
Curacao,
Panama |
| 55R |
Auckland
|
October 26,
1933 |
London |
December
2, 1933 |
Panama,
Curacao |
| 56 |
London |
December 14,
1933 |
Wellington |
January
20, 1934 |
Plymouth,
Curacao,
Panama |
| 56R |
Auckland
|
February 17,
1934 |
London |
March
26, 1934 |
Panama,
Curacao |
| 57 |
London |
April 7, 1934 |
Auckland |
May
14, 1934 |
Curacao,
Panama |
| 57R |
Auckland
|
June 9, 1934 |
London |
July
17, 1934 |
Panama,
Curacao |
| 58 |
London |
August 23,
1934 |
Wellington |
September
30, 1934 |
Curacao,
Panama |
| 58R |
Auckland
|
October 24,
1934 |
London |
December
3, 1934 |
Panama,
Curacao |
| 59 |
London |
December 13,
1934 |
Wellington |
January
20, 1935 |
Curacao,
Panama |
| 59R |
Wellington
|
February 16,
1935 |
London |
March
26, 1935 |
Panama,
Curacao |
| 60 |
London |
April 4, 1935 |
Wellington |
May
13, 1935 |
Curacao,
Panama |
| 60R |
Wellington
|
June 8, 1935 |
London |
July
14, 1935 |
Panama,
Curacao |
| 61 |
London |
August 22, 1935 |
Wellington |
September
28, 1935 |
David
Grantham has the story of a stowaway on this voyage in the Dec (2016) /
Jan issue of NZ Memories magazine. She was determined to return to
Australia after her husband was institutionalised in Britain. She had to
work her passage. |
| 61R |
Auckland |
|
London |
|
|
| 62 |
London
|
December
11, 1935 |
|
|
|
| 63 |
Plymouth / London
|
April
4/7, 1936 |
NZ |
|
|
| 63R |
Wellington
|
|
London |
|
|
| 64 |
Newport
|
August
18, 1936 |
NZ |
|
|
| 65 |
London / Plymouth
|
December
10/11, 1936 |
Wellington |
|
 Bound
in passenger list
 Tipped
in supplement - 2 sides
|
| 66 |
London
|
April
14, 1937 |
NZ |
|
|
| 67 |
London / Plymouth
|
August
18/20, 1937 |
NZ |
|
|
| 68 |
London
|
Dec
15, 1937 |
Wellington |
|
Arrived
Pitcairn 12 Jan - this Remuera cover was back-stamped at Pitcairn was
taken off by RMS Arawa and cancelled at Southampton.
1.5d was an Empire rate at the time - it applied to airmail too. |
| 69 |
London / Plymouth
|
April
27/29, 1938 |
Auckland |
|
|
| 69R |
NZ
|
July
2, 1938 |
NZ |
|
|
| 70 |
London / Plymouth
|
August
22/23, 1938 |
NZ |
|
|
| 71 |
London
/ Plymouth |
March
9/10, 1939 |
NZ |
|
|
| 72 |
London |
July
12, 1939 |
NZ |
|
|
| 73 |
London |
December
12, 1939 |
Wellington |
|
|
| 74R |
Wellington
|
July 12, 1940 |
London |
|
Sunk
August 26th |
Remuera often traveled to
different ports on the New Zealand Coast collecting cargo before making the trip
to Britain. Stops included Lyttleton, Timaru, Tokomaru Bay, Port Chalmers,
Bluff, Napier, Gisborne and Waikokopu. She
visited Auckland 19
times between 27 June 1924 and 13 June 1940.
Many thanks to:
-
David Howse, grandson of Captain Edward Holland, for much of the information
in this table.
- Stephen Smith for 1920's dates.
- Sheila Jones for
information about early sailings.
- Steve Butler
- Tim Young - who has a
particular Pitcairn interest.
- Michelle Sim, for some
documents / postcards / photos
- Steve Butler for some
voyage information
Findmypast
- has UK outbound voyage lists (free) and passenger lists (pay-for).
David
Ransom has a site New Zealand
Shipping Company records for genealogy https://nzsc.wordpress.com/
which has
- Passenger Lists
- Slide shows
- Ephemera and
- Links
He also has pages on Remuera
and on the Remuera crew member Henry
George Keyse who was a
keen photographer.
Other Remuera Sites and
Information:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/r-c/remuera.html
http://www.grahambould.net/raf.htm
http://portal.pohub.com/pls/pogprtl/poghistory.display_document.pdf?p_id=1713
Sea Breezes, February 1971,
Vol 45 No 302, p102 Steamers of the Past, "Remuera" of 1911.
New Zealand Marine News 1983
Volume 34 No 1
"Time to Go Sparky
" Victor Jack Hickey published in 1994 by G D Hornby,
ISBN No 0 9522814 0 6
Hickey was her radio officer in 1936/37.
"Pitcairn: Port of
Call" Herbert Ford. 1996 Hawser Titles, Angwin California. ISBN
0964964201
Plowman, P. 1981, "Passenger Ships of Australia and New Zealand Vol
1",
Doubleday, Lane Cove.
Tim Young, SS
Remuera. UCKLUN
TULL UN DEM TULL, Pitcairn
News. Volume 4 No
9 October 2010
Copy at http://www.demtullpitcairn.com/theremuera.html
The Story of an
Immigrant Ship Garry Law 2010 Heritage Matters. Issue 25 Summer
2010/11
Later Remuera Ships:
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