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KARITANE (1939)
Service dates: 1939-1965
Official number: 157661
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 21.12.1938
- Launched.
- 02.1939
- Completed as Karitane for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 05.1939
- Re-measured. Now 1,278 nrt.
- 09.1939
- Requisitioned for war service and was used to carry military supplies to the South Pacific bases.
- 08.1948
- Re-measured. Now 1,274 nrt.
- 1952
- She was specifically fitted out for the carriage of bulk grain.
- 1965
- Sold to the Kinabatangan Shipping Co, Hong Kong, and renamed Good Philippine Anchorage.
- 1966
- Sold to Century Shipping Lines SA, Panama, without a change of name.
- 1968
- Renamed Amaria without a change in ownership.
- 1969
- Renamed Unistar One without a change in ownership.
- 1970
- Sold to Haisen Navigation Company SA, Panama, without a change of name.
- 12.1970
- Broken up by Lee Sing & Co, Hong Kong.