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KURUTAI (1952)
Service dates: 1952-1971
Official number: 196276
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 26.02.1952
- Launched.
- 07.1952
- Completed as Kurutai for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 31.12.1971
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company’s interest in the Union Steam Ship Company sold to Tasman Union Lines Ltd and therefore the vessel was no longer under Group service.
- 1973
- Sold to Cronulla Cia Nav SA, Panama (Jaguar Shipping Corp Ltd, Hong Kong, managers) and renamed New Keelung.
- 1974
- Sold to Cia Nav Keelung SA, Panama (Sam U Shipping Co Ltd, Hong Kong, managers) without a change of name.
- 21.03.1978
- Arrived at Hong Kong.
- 05.1978
- Broken up at Hong Kong by the shipbreakers Sam Woo & Co.