SS Waikato
SS Waikato at Port Chalmers | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Waikato (1892–1905)
Augustus (1905–1912) Teresa Accame (1912–1923) |
| Owner |
|
| Builder | William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland |
| Completed | 1892 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 4,767 GRT, 3,071 NRT |
| Length | 400 ft (120 m) |
| Beam | 48 ft (15 m) |
| Capacity | 70,000 carcases of frozen mutton and 6 or 7 thousand bales of wool. |
SS Waikato was a refrigerated cargo ship built for the New Zealand Shipping Company. It became famous in 1899, when it was involved in a drifting incident, when it broke down off the South African coast and drifted for 103 days before being discovered and towed to Australia.