Ship Origins
The 1,320-ton, 73-metre (240 ft) Dunedin was built by Robert Duncan and Co at Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1874 at a cost of ₤23,750 (£1.6 million, in 2010 inflation-adjusted British pounds). She was one of six 'Auckland' class emigrant vessels, designed to hold 400 passengers. In 1881, still painted in the original Albion Line colours of a black hull with a gold band and pink boot topping as shown, she was refitted with a Bell Coleman refrigeration machine with which she took the first load of frozen meat from New Zealand to the United Kingdom.
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