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KARETU (1964)
Service dates: 1964-1971
Official number: 191851
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 06.1964
- Completed as Karepo for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 31.12.1971
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company sold their interest in the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand to Tasman Union Ltd, therefore the vessel was no longer in Group service.
- 1980
- Sold to B C D Shipping Pte Ltd, Singapore (Chuan Peng Kiat, Singapore, managers) and renamed Pacific Ocean.
- 1982
- Management transferred to Pacific Navigation Co Pte Ltd, Singapore.
- 15.07.1987
- Sold to Taiwan shipbreakers and sailed Keelung for demolition at Kaohsiung.