 After Tongatapu the "Talune" sailed for Nauru, where once again the first cases of influenza appeared ashore within a few days of her departure.Nothing is known of "Talune"'s employment after its disastrous 1918 voyage until 1921, when Union Steamship Company records show it was laid up.In 1925 the ship was hulked, and in November of that year was filled with rocks and scuttled to form the foundation of a breakwater at Waikokopu, a small port in northern Hawke Bay, on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.