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AORANGI (1924)
Service dates: 1924-1931
Official number: 148515
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 17.06.1924
- Launched.
- 16.12.1924
- Completed as Aorangi for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 03.01.1925
- Sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton to Vancouver.
- 06.02.1925
- Went on her first voyage to Sydney.
- 07.1931
- Transferred to the Canadian-Australasian Line.
- 1938
- Refitted at Sydney with updated passenger accommodation.
- 09.1939
- Continued in regular service and also served military purposes during World War II.
- 05.1944
- Arrived in the Solent.
- 06.06.1944
- Acted as an accommodation mothership and store ship during the Normandy invasion.
- 1945
- Fitted out as a flagship to the Pacific Squadron of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
- 07.1945
- Served as a Far East accommodation ship at Manus Island, New Guinea.
- 1946
- Based at Hong Kong.
- 04.1946
- Returned to her owners at Hong Kong after reconditioning.
- 19.04.1948
- First post-war sailing from Sydney to various destinations.
- 1951
- Laid up in the 'off-season'.
- 09.06.1953
- Sold to British Iron & Steel Corporation and broken up.