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STORM (1961)
Service dates: 1961-1971
Official number: 196217
Shipping lines: CANTERBURY STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Coaster.
Career
- 12.05.1960
- Launched.
- 03.1961
- Completed as Storm for the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company Ltd.
- 1969
- Management transferred to Holm Shipping Company Ltd.
- 31.12.1971
- P&O sold their interest in the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand to Tasman Union Ltd (Canterbury Steam Shipping Company Ltd was their subsidiary) therefore the vessel was no longer in P&O Group service.
- 31.03.1972
- Ownership transferred to Holm Shipping Company Ltd.
- 04.1974
- Disabled off Cape Brett by an engineroom breakdown while on a voyage from Fiji to Auckland with a cargo of sugar. Towed into port by Holmburn for repairs.
- 16.12.1974
- Laid up at Dunedin.
- 16.06.1975
- Sold by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand to Crossworld Navigation & Brokerage Company (Hong Kong) Ltd, Singapore, and renamed Sourabaya Fortune.
- 1977
- Sold to Pacific International Lines Ltd and subsequently renamed Kota Kerwira.
- 1985
- Sold to Sabah South East Asia Investment Corp (Thai Boon Roong Trading (S) Pte Ltd, managers) and renamed Perwira.
- 1986
- Renamed Thai Hong.
- 09.1987
- At Madras with damage.
- 05.1988
- Broken up at Madras.