ARAMAC (1948)

Service dates: 1962-1969

Official number: 182417

Shipping lines: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.; EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:

• Passenger Ship
• Cargo Ship

Passenger/Cargo Ship.

Career

25.02.1947

Launched.

07.04.1948

Delivered as Parthia for Cunard White Star Ltd for their Liverpool/New York service. Originally carried 251 first class passengers and 7,000 tons of cargo.

10.04.1948

Maiden voyage Liverpool/New York.

1949

Transferred to The Cunard Steamship Co Ltd.

1953

Fitted with Denny-Brown stabilisers.

01.11.1961

Sold for about £705,000 to the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd and underwent a six month refit by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, Linthouse, Glasgow, at a further cost of £392,750.

02.05.1962

She was taken over from the yard and renamed Remuera. Passenger capacity now 350 first class passengers. Due to the stabilisers being fitted earlier, this made her the first ship so equipped in the New Zealand Shipping Company’s fleet.

31.05.1962

Entered service.

1963

Made her first trans-Tasman voyage from Sydney.

18.02.1964

Rescued 360 people from the earthquake stricken island of Sao Jorge, Azores and landed them at Terceira the next day.

19.11.1964

Made her last sailing for the New Zealand Shipping Company.

12.01.1965

Demise chartered to the Eastern & Australian Steamship Company Ltd on a long-term basis. Renamed Aramac. She maintained E&A’s six yearly Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane/Yokkaichi/Nagoya/Yokohama/Kobe/Keelong/Hong Kong/Manila/Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne service.

28.12.1966

Transferred to the Federal Steam Navigation Company Ltd.

09.08.1968

Ownership transferred to the Eastern & Australian Steamship Company Ltd at a cost of £676,000.

22.11.1969

Delivered at Kaohsiung, Taiwan to the Chin Ho Fa Steel & Iron Co Ltd for breaking up.

05.03.1970

Demolition commenced.

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