 SS Talune in Port Chalmers graving dock, c. 1890s
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Talune |
| Operator | Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company / (1891 on) Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand |
| Builder | Ramage & Ferguson, of Leith, Scotland |
| In service | 1890 |
| Out of service | 1921 |
| Fate | Scuttled November 1925 at Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 2,087 gross tons |
| Propulsion | Single triple-expansion steam engine |
| Capacity | 175 passengers |
| Crew | 56 crew |
SS Talune was built in 1890 and scuttled in 1925. She was a passenger and freight steamship employed in the Tasman Sea and South Seas trades in the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century. It was a typical ship of its time and type in every way. It would be unknown except that it was the ship that brought the deadly 1918 Spanish flu pandemic from New Zealand to Samoa and other Pacific islands.