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PIPIRIKI (1944)
Service dates: 1944-1971
Official number: 165900
Shipping lines: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 28.12.1943
- Launched.
- 16.05.1944
- Delivered as Pipiriki to the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.
- 17.05.1944/29.05.1946
- Immediately requisitioned for the Liner Division.
- 26.05.1944
- Maiden voyage Glasgow/New Zealand.
- 1955
- Carried sheep from Port Chalmers to Montevideo via Cape Horn.
- 30.11.1955
- Stuck the quay wall at Swansea while leaving for Adelaide.
- 13.06.1956
- Suffered a fire in the insulation while under repair at Falmouth. It was extinguished after five hours.
- 28.12.1966
- Ownership transferred to the Federal Steam Navigation Company Ltd (New Zealand Shipping Company, managers).
- 14.01.1968
- Shed a propeller blade in mid-Pacific, bound London to Apia and Suva and proceeded under auxiliary sail and slow engine speed to Suva where she arrived on 2nd February. She was docked at Wellington for repairs.
- 05.02.1971
- Sold for £160,000 to Nan Feng Enterprises for breaking up.
- 18.02.1971
- Breaking up commenced at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.