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TYRONE (1937)
Service dates: 1937-1963
Official number: 165874
Shipping lines: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.; AVENUE SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.; MONTREAL, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LINE
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 07.09.1937
- Launched.
- 11.1937
- Ran trials.
- 17.11.1937
- Completed as Kaikoura for the New Zealand Shipping Company for MANZ Line service.
- 26.04.1940/06.05.1946
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
- 30.01.1943/15.03.1943
- Served as a military store ship.
- 05.03.1949
- Broke a piston in the main engine shortly after leaving Auckland for Havana and New York. Returned for repairs the same day and sailed again on the 10th.
- 26.01.1950
- Grounded on a sandbank in Otago harbour, bound Dunedin to Port Chalmers. She was refloated after 5 hours.
- 1950
- Refrigerated space now 1,142 cubic metres (40,347 cubic feet).
- 1952
- Accommodation rebuilt by Grayson, Rollo & Clover Docks Ltd, Liverpool, raising the bridge one deck higher. Re-measured. Now 6,067 grt, 3,454 nrt.
- 11.1952
- Collided with a barge at New York.
- 09.11.1954
- Sold for £120,000 to the Avenue Shipping Company Ltd, which was also a P&O subsidiary company therefore the ship did not leave Group service.
- 19.11.1954
- Renamed Tyrone after originally been announced as Wicklow.
- 09.1963
- Sold to The Shin Wing Hong, Hong Kong for breaking up.
- 16.10.1963
- Demolition commenced.