SS ''Waihora'' was a 2,003-ton passenger cargo steamship built by

William Denny & Brothers William Denny and Brothers Limited, often referred to simply as Denny, was a Scottish shipbuilding company. History The shipbuilding interests of the Denny family date back to William Denny (born 1779), for whom ships are recorded being built ...

, Dumbarton in 1882 for the

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer. It was incorporated by James Mills in Dunedin in 1875 with the backing of a Scot ...

. ''Waihora'' stuck a rock of the coast of Tasmania in February 1886 and was holed. She was sold subsequently to Koe Guan Company, Penang in 1903, to Diedrichsen & Jebsen & Company, Hamburg in 1906 and renamed ''Lysholt'' and later to H. Diedrichsen, Hamburg in 1909.

Fate

She was broken up at Shanghai in 1911.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waihora 1882 ships Ships built on the River Clyde Passenger ships of New Zealand Ships of the Union Steam Ship Company