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RMS Tainui

Built by Workman Clark and Company, Belfast and launched in 1908 for Shaw Savill Line. Fitted with twin screw triple expansion engines, she was utilised mostly on UK to New Zealand service. On 21 Feb 1943 she torpedoed in the North Atlantic, abandoned and believed sank on 22nd.
(Tainui is a Maori tribal name, and also the name of one of the canoes of the Great Migration of 1350, which was the first recorded vessel to enter the Waitemata Harbour.)

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