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MAHENO (1969)
Service dates: 1969-1971
Official number: 332387
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Cargo Ferry.
Career
- 15.04.1969
- Delivered as Maheno for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. She and her sister Marama introduced a ro-ro service on the trans-Tasman routes and transformed the service into a 14-day rotation. At the time, their 2,090 km (1,300 mile) crossing was the longest ro-ro service in the world.
- 31.12.1971
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company sold their interest in the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand to Tasman Union Ltd, therefore the vessel was no longer in Group service.
- 1976
- Sold to Thames Marine Ltd SA, Panama (A G Societe de Gestion Maritime Socigemar, Zurich, managers) and renamed Jolly Giallo.
- 1979
- Management transferred to Orconsult SA, Zurich.
- 1980
- Renamed African Trader without a change in ownership.
- 1982
- Management transferred to Orconsult Shipping Co Ltd, Zurich.
- 1985
- Sold to Oyster Shipping Ltd, Gibraltar (Vlasov Group, Monto Carlo, managers) and renamed June Lady.
- 1985
- Renamed Olbios.
- 1985
- Once again renamed June Lady.
- 1988
- Sold to Naviera Interoceangas SA (NISA), Santiago, and renamed Tierra Del Fuego.
- 1991
- Sold to Compagnia Navigazione del Terreno (CONATIR) SpA, Trapani, and renamed Carla E.
- 07.2003
- Sold to Princenton Shipping, Quebec, Canada, and renamed Santa Emma.
- 01.2004
- Sailed from Piraeus to Cape Tormentine, Canada, where Transport Canada detained her because of structural defects, faulty navigation and firefighting equipment, a deficient general alarm, loadline deficiencies and defective fuel tanks. Her crew left her a few days after she was detained and she remained laid up pending repairs.
- 12.2004
- Ownership was reported to have passed to Rikan Shipping of Liberia.
- 28.04.2005
- Broke her mooring lines in high winds and drifted aground between the former government ferry wharf and the breakwater about 50m (165ft) further down the pier from her original position, with a fifteen degree starboard list. She suffered a hole in her stern and several thousand litres of fuel oil in her bunkers posed a pollution threat and were removed from the ship.