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The continuing saga of the ‘Black Funnel Line’ © Courtesy: Victor Young Inside the Calm (II) wheelhouse -Auckland Maritime Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 2006-5094-5 Accident-prone Built by J.S.White & Company at Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 1920 as the 749-ton s.s. River Wear for United Converted in 1938 from steam to a motor ship with a Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine at Sydney, the Storm Kingdom coastal shipping, the vessel was purchased in 1924 by the Canterbury Steam Shipping returned to New Zealand with a cut-down funnel, new foremast and larger wheelhouse. However, she Company and renamed Storm (II). faced another period of accidents, especially to her machinery. Destined for the South Island-Wanganui run, she was particularly identified by her long, thin funnel. In 1956, the Storm departed Wellington for Japan with a scrap steel cargo to become the Rose Pearl, Running in competition with Holm and Union Company vessels, the Storm (II) had a catalogue of mishaps then Francoise, for Panama companies. She was subsequently purchased by Singapore owners at Wanganui and Wellington. She also stranded at Akaroa in December 1931 and struck a submerged Guan Guan Shipping Ltd and subsidiaries to become the Batu Mas, Chevalier, Saffi and King Tiger. object off Banks Peninsula in 1934, with a further stranding at Wanganui in 1936. In late 1972, and now over fifty years old, the vessel was sold for demolition. © Courtesy: Victor Young The s.s.Storm (II) in the inner harbour at Lyttelton. -Auckland Maritime Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 1959-1270-45 Island trader The m.v.
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