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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)