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KAITOKE (1948)
Service dates: 1948-1971
Official number: 142923
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 27.02.1948
- Launched.
- 09.1948
- Delivered as Kaitoke to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 14.03.1950
- Involved in a collision with Port Auckland while at Auckland.
- 1972
- Sold to Cronulla Cia Naviera SA, Panama, and renamed Singapore.
- 1974
- Sold to Cia Nav Kaohsiung SA, Panama (Sam U Shipping Co Ltd, Hong Kong, managers) without a change of name.
- 1975
- Sold to Ioansun SA, Panama (Zea Shipping Ltd, Piraeus, managers) and renamed Venus.
- 1977
- Renamed Mars without a change in ownership.
- 20.09.1978
- Went aground at Tarifa Point, Spain en route from Casablanca to Ravenna.
- 11.11.1978
- As a result of her damage, she was laid up at Chalkis, Greece.
- 09.11.1980
- Sold to Trimimar Shipping & Trading and arrived at Eleusis for demolition.