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TARAWERA (1958)

Service dates: 1958-1971

Official number: 199095

Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND

Ship type:


Refrigerated Cargo Liner.


Career

23.04.1958
Launched.
08.1958
Delivered as Tarawera 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.
12.1973
Laid up at Auckland.
01.07.1974
Sold to Maldives Shipping Ltd, Male, and renamed Maldive Quest.
1980
Sold to Taiwan shipbreakers.
02.04.1980
Left Singapore.
03.05.1980
Demolition began at Kaohsiung.


Ship technical details (PDF)