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MATAURA (1968)
Service dates: 1968-1981
Official number: 335736
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION; FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; LAURITZEN-PENINSULAR REEFERS
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 18.12.1967
- Launched.
- 15.05.1968
- Delivered as Mataura for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 01.10.1971
- Management and operation transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 23.03.1977
- Ownership transferred to Federal Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 05.1977/09.1977
- Refrigerated capacity enhanced by Framnaes MAT A/S, Sandefjord, Norway.
- 30.08.1977
- Renamed Wild Mallard for service with Lauritzen Peninsular Reefers A/S.
- 02.10.1981
- Sold to Hampton Shipping Corp Monrovia, (Comninos Bros Shipping Co SA, Piraeus, managers) with a charter back to Lauritzen Peninsular Reefers A/S. Renamed Macedonian Reefer.
- 28.05.1985
- Laid up at Setubal.
- 09.1987
- Transferred to the National Renewal Cia Nav SA, Piraeus (Comninos Brothers Shipping Co SA, managers) registered at Panama and renamed Maracaibo Reefer.
- 1988
- Sold to the Meadway Navigation Co Ltd, Panama (International Reefer Services SA, managers) and renamed Bolero Reefer.
- 1996
- Renamed Corrado I.
- 26.06.1998
- Arrived at Alang, India, to be broken up.