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WANAKA (1970)
Service dates: 1970-1971
Official number: 191856
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Cargo Ferry.
Career
- 19.12.1969
- Launched by Mrs F K MacFarlane.
- 10.04.1970
- Completed as Wanaka for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. She was the first ship in the company to be fitted with a bulbous bow.
- 31.12.1971
- The Peninsular & 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.
- 01.03.1975
- Laid up at Dunedin.
- 03.1976
- Sold to Sealanes Transport Corporation, Monrovia (Seaways Shipping & Trading Co SA, Piraeus, managers) and renamed Rata Hills.
- 1978
- Registry transferred to Iniochos Shipping Ltd, Piraeus (Seaways Shipping & Trading Co SA, Piraeus, managers) and renamed Iniochos Express.
- 1980
- Under charter to BAISA Brittany Ferries (Bretagne-Angleterre-Irlande) Roscoff, France, and renamed Breizh-Izel.
- 1989
- Sold to Seatruck Services Ltd, Nicosia (Marlines SA, Piraeus, managers) and renamed Duchess M.
- 1991
- Ownership transferred to Marelite Marine Co Ltd, Limassol (Marlines SA, Piraeus, managers) without a change of name.
- 2000
- Renamed Balbek.
- 12.09.2000
- Laid up Eleusis Bay near Piraeus.