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SS Aorangi (1883)
SS ''Aorangi'' was a passenger and refrigerated cargo ship built by John Elder & Co. of Govan, Glasgow for the New Zealand Shipping Company and launched in 1883. She was chartered by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between April 1914 until 1915.〔Wilson, p.48.〕 In 1915 she was sunk as a block ship at Scapa Flow. In 1920 she was raised and scrapped.
==Career==
John Elder & Co of Govan built ''Aorangi'' as a passenger and refrigerated cargo ship for the New Zealand Shipping Company. Launched in 1883, she saw service on the passenger route between England and New Zealand, with accommodations for 80 first-class, 80 second-class, and 250 third-class passengers. She was then chartered in 1894 to Huddart Parker, underwent a major refit from 1896 to 1897, that made her funnel taller and changed her accommodations to 100 first-class and 50 second-class berths.
The ship saw service after her 1897 refit on the route between Australia, New Zealand and San Francisco, which included cargo and passenger service between Honolulu and Vancouver. ''Aorangi'' in this time carried some of the 1878 to 1911 wave of Portuguese immigration to Hawaii, when she arrived on 16 February 1901 in Honolulu Harbor from Vancouver with a contingent of 23 Portuguese immigrants, who had been recruited from the Eastern United States to work as contract laborers on the Hawaiian sugar plantations.〔〔 The ''Aorangi'' continued to provide service between Australia and the United States until 1914 when she was laid up at Sydney.
In April 1914 the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) chartered ''Aorangi'' and used her as a supply ship. However, she was not commissioned into the RAN, but was manned by her civilian crew. She was armed with a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun, and took part in operations against the German colonies in the Pacific with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force and Australian Fleet. She was returned in May 1915 to her owners and subsequently sold to the Admiralty.〔
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