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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.


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