SS Tairoa was a British cargo liner and refrigerated freight ship operated by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Line from 1920 to 1939. She was ordered in 1919, laid down in the Tyneside yards of Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth and Co Ltd, launched on 4 February 1920 and completed that July. She was 494 feet long with a gross registered tonnage of 7,983, two four cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines driving twin screws for a service speed of 13.5 knots, and insulated cargo chambers of 314,345 cubic feet. She sailed between the United Kingdom and Australia until 3 December 1939, when she was intercepted and sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off South West Africa on passage from Brisbane to London.
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Tairoa was ordered in 1919 and laid down in the Tyneside yards of Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd.
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Tairoa was ordered in 1919 and laid down in the Tyneside yards of Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd.
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Tairoa was launched on 4 February 1920 and completed in July that year.
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SS Tairoa was a British cargo liner and refrigerated freight ship
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two x four cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines
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until she was intercepted and sunk by the German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee, off South West Africa
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Tairoa was ordered in 1919 and laid down in the Tyneside yards of Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd.
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