[6] HMNZHS Maheno arrived at Moudros, the naval base of the Gallipoli Campaign, on 25 August 1915, and the next day was off ANZAC Cove, loading casualties from the Battle of Hill 60.

Until October 1916 she operated in the English Channel, returning large numbers of wounded and sick troops from the Western Front to England.

[4] There were criticisms of the Maheno making several trips to New Zealand to refit or to transport wounded soldiers home when most could have gone in a troopship; and also that the ship has been run by the governor (Liverpool) as "His Exc’s pet patriotic hobby".

[8] At the war's end in November 1918, Maheno was released from military service and returned to her business owner to resume her commercial life.

At the end of its commercial life, on 3 July 1935 Maheno left Sydney under tow[9] by the 1,758-ton ship Oonah, a former Tasmanian Steamers Pty.

Attempts to re-attach the towline failed in the heavy seas, and the Maheno, with a skeleton crew of eight men aboard, drifted off and disappeared.

[9] The Oonah, with its steering gear temporarily disabled, broadcast a radio message requesting assistance for Maheno, whose propellers had been removed.

[11] Maheno was subsequently found on 10 July by an aircraft piloted by Keith Virtue, beached off the coast of K'gari (Frasier Island).

[13] The wreck was also the location of the marriage of Dudley Weatherley and Beatrice McLean (instead of at Townsville), at the invitation of Captain Takaka, to notes from the ship's Bechstein piano.