SS Whangape

Whangape was a cargo ship measured at 2,931 gross register tons (GRT), built in 1899 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough.[1] The vessel was constructed for the British Maritime Trust as Adriana, sold while on the slips to Elder, Dempster & Company and renamed Asaba.[2] Her engine was built by T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool.[3]

SS Whangape
History
Name:
  • Whangape (1899–1928)
  • Nanking (1928–1935)
Owner:
Builder: Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough
Yard number: 470
Launched: 16 December 1899
Completed: 1 March 1900
Honours and
awards:
  • Battle honours: (RAN)
  • Rabaul 1914
Fate: Scrapped in 1935
General characteristics
Type: Cargo ship
Tonnage: 2,931 GRT
Length: 320 ft (98 m)
Beam: 44.8 ft (13.7 m)
Depth: 15.3 ft (4.7 m)
Installed power: Triple expansion steam engine

"Whangape" (pronounced: fun gah' pay) is a Māori word meaning "waiting for the inside of the pipi."[4] The pipi is a bivalve mollusk native to New Zealand. Whangape was also the sister ship to SS Mont-Blanc,[5][6] the munitions vessel under French registry that collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo on 6 December 1917 in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada resulting in the devastating Halifax Explosion.

The vessel was completed on 1 March 1900 and sold to the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand.[7] After being chartered by the Royal Australian Navy, she took part in operations against the German colonies in the Pacific with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) during the First World War in 1914 and subsequently returned to her owners. Whangape was sold in 1928 to Chun Young Zan (Moller & Co) and renamed SS Nanking.

Fate

Nanking was scrapped in China in 1935.

Footnotes
  1. SS Nanking / Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1933-34 (PDF), Lloyd's Register Foundation, retrieved 15 June 2019
  2. Miramar Ship Index, R. B. Haworth, retrieved 23 June 2019
  3. Tees Built Ships, Tees Built Ships, retrieved 15 June 2019
  4. Brookes, Edwin Stanley (1892). Frontier Life: Taranaki, New Zealand. With Maps and Sketches. Aukland, N. Z.: H. Brett, Shortland & Fort Streets. (p. 86)
  5. Amended Plan of the Midship Section of a Steel Screw Steamer Mont Blanc, 6 May 1898, Lloyd's Register Foundation, retrieved 15 June 2019
  6. Engine and Boiler Arrangement for Mont Blanc, 6 May 1898, Lloyd's Register Foundation, retrieved 15 June 2019
  7. SS Nanking / Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1933-34 (PDF), Lloyd's Register Foundation, retrieved 15 June 2019

References
  • Gillett, Ross (1986). Australia's navy : past, present & future. Brookvale, NSW: Child & Henry. ISBN 0-86777-178-X.
  • Odgers, George (1982). The Royal Australian Navy : an illustrated history. Brookvale, NSW: Child & Henry. ISBN 0-86777-240-9.

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