&sq=&lang=&file=File:SS_Otaki_sinking.jpg) Otaki sinking on 10 March 1917
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| History | |
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| Name | Otaki |
| Namesake | Either the town or the river Ōtaki |
| Owner | Haycraft & Westray (1908–10) New Zealand Shipping Company (1910–17) |
| Operator | Haycraft, Cowan & King (1909) |
| Port of registry | Plymouth |
| Route | New Zealand – Great Britain |
| Builder | Wm Denny & Bros, Dumbarton |
| Yard number | 835 |
| Launched | 15 August 1908 |
| Completed | 22 October 1908 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sunk by enemy action 10 March 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Refrigerated cargo ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 465.4 ft (141.9 m) |
| Beam | 60.3 ft (18.4 m) |
| Draught | 28.7 ft (8.7 m) |
| Depth | 34.0 ft (10.4 m) |
| Installed power | 471 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Capacity |
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| Crew | 72 |
| Armament | (as DEMS): 1 × 4.7-inch gun |
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SS Otaki was a New Zealand Shipping Company refrigerated cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1908 and sunk by a German merchant raider in 1917.
Otaki's design is notable because she was the first ship whose propulsion combined reciprocating steam engines with a low-pressure steam turbine.
Otaki's loss is also notable because although the merchant raider SMS Möwe sank her, Otaki damaged Möwe enough to force her attacker to return to port, ending her raiding career. Otaki's Master, Archibald Bisset Smith, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.