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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.