WAIOTIRA

BUILT BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN BELFAST IN 1938 AND LAUNCHED THE FOLLOWING YEAR.SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 12,823 TONS.

ON BOXING DAY IN 1940 SHE WAS TORPEDOED BY THE GERMAN SUBMARINE U.95 ( COMMANDED BY HEINRICH LIEBE ) AND WAS DAMAGED,THE FOLLOWING DAY U.38 (COMMANDED BY GERD SCHREIBER ) FOUND HER AND SANK THE VESSEL

THE SURVIVORS WERE PICKED UP BY H.M.S MASHONA AND TAKEN TO GLASGOW.THE SHIPS CAPTAIN AT THE TIME WAS CAPTAIN RICHARDSON.

SHE HAD BEEN PART OF CONVOY HX-97.