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NGAPARA (1966)
Service dates: 1966-1971
Official number: 317612
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 04.02.1966
- Launched by Mrs A C Crosbie.
- 06.1966
- Delivered as Ngapara for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 31.12.1971
- P&O sold their interest in the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand to Tasman Union Ltd, therefore the vessel was no longer in P&O Group service.
- 12.05.1986
- Laid up at Lyttelton.
- 10.1986
- Sold to Reach Shipping SA, Panama and Taipei, and renamed Kent Brilliant.
- 14.04.1993
- Following the loss of a rudder north of the Philippines, the vessel was towed to Keelung.
- 1993
- Sold and renamed Financier.
- 15.05.1993
- No repairs were effected and the vessel was towed out by the tug Huajen.
- 18.05.1993
- Arrived at Huangpu and thought to have been demolished.
- 29.07.2006
- Noted and photographed by Ian Edwards lying at Shanghai as Zheng He 9, fully repaired and in fine condition.
- 2006
- Sold to Attar Construction Ltd, St Vincent & The Grenadines (Pelmar Shipping & Engineering Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, India, managers) and renamed Star 1.
- 02.02.2007
- Reportedly scrapped in India.