SS Whangape
Whangape was a cargo ship measured at , built in 1899 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Middlesbrough. The vessel was constructed for the British Maritime Trust as "Adriana", sold while on the slips to Elder, Dempster & Company and renamed "Asaba". Her engine was built by T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool. "Whangape" (pronounced: fun gah' pay) is a Māori word meaning "waiting for the inside of the pipi." The pipi is a bivalve mollusk native to New Zealand. "Whangape" was also the sister ship to , the munitions vessel under French registry that collided with the Norwegian vessel on 6 December 1917  in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada resulting in the devastating Halifax Explosion. The vessel was completed on 1 March 1900 and sold to the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. After being chartered by the Royal Australian Navy, she took part in operations against the German colonies in the Pacific with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) during the First World War in 1914 and subsequently returned to her owners. "Whangape" was sold in 1928 to Chun Young Zan (Moller & Co) and renamed SS "Nanking". Fate. "Nanking" was scrapped in China in 1935.