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SUFFOLK (1939)
Service dates: 1939-1968
Official number: 167330
Shipping lines: FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 03.05.1939
- Launched.
- 11.09.1939
- Completed as Suffolk for the Federal Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £480,000.
- 29.09.1939
- Left the Clyde without running trials on her maiden voyage.
- 16.02.1940/02.03.1946
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
- 08.1940/09.1940
- Served as a military store ship.
- 17.07.1941/24.08.1941
- Served as a mechanical transport ship and took part in a troop-landing exercise in Scapa Flow.
- 10.1942
- Carried supplies to the operations on Diego Suarez and sailed to Malta.
- 11.1942/21.12.1942
- Served as a military store ship.
- 24.02.1944
- Grounded off Hamilton Wharf, Brisbane River.
- 05.1945
- Left New Orleans with a large refrigerated cargo bound for the Philippines.
- 22.01.1947
- Collided with the dock wall at Newport.
- 05.11.1949/28.12.1949
- Served as a meat storage ship at Liverpool.
- 12.1950
- Suffered an engine breakdown on a voyage to Australia.
- 09.11.1957
- Re-opened the port of Opua.
- 30.04.1958
- Grounded on a sandbank in Otago harbour.
- 12.08.1963
- Suffered a fire in No.6 hold at Auckland.
- 04.1967
- Suffered a major engine breakdown between Panama and New Zealand.
- 03.10.1968
- Arrived at Kaohsiung for demolition.
- 01.1969
- Demolition work began.