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WAIKAWA (1944)
Service dates: 1946-1959
Official number: 175386
Shipping lines: CANADIAN UNION LINE LTD.; UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND; CANADIAN AUSTRALASIAN LINE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 11.05.1944
- Delivered as Parkdale Park to the Park Steamship Company.
- 16.04.1946
- Taken over by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and allocated to the Canadian-Australasian Line Ltd, Montreal although she was put under the ownership of the Canadian Union Line Ltd, Vancouver. She was renamed Waikawa.
- 1950
- Re-registered at Wellington, NZ.
- 08.12.1958
- Laid up at Vancouver.
- 1959
- Sold to Marine Development & Supply Co SA, Panama and registered to Fulda Marine Corporation, Panama (Marine Industry Corp Ltd, managers) and renamed Fulda.
- 1968
- Sold to World Marine Transportation Corp, Panama.
- 10.05.1969
- Sold to Korean shipbreakers and arrived at Pusan for demolition.