George Fraser was a New Zealand engineer, foundry proprietor and ship owner. He was born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 28 June 1832.
Fraser in 1901
SS Hilonian
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SS Hilonian was a general passenger and cargo steamer, built as the Triumph in 1880 at Middlesbrough for McIntyre & Co, and later fitted with refrigeration equipment and leased to Shaw Savill and the
George Fraser (New Zealand engineer)
…up Grafton Gully as the Phoenix Foundry, initially as Fraser and Tinne and later as George Fraser & Sons Ltd. George's restoration of the wrecked ship Triumph was well publicised and awarded around 1884. In 1871 Fraser and Tinne acquired a flax mill at Kaihu, which, in 1875, they converted to produce paper…
SS Triumph in dry dock near Prince's Wharf in 1884 after being wrecked on Tiritiri Matangi Island