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NORFOLK (1947)
Service dates: 1947-1973
Official number: 181558
Shipping lines: FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 13.06.1946
- Launched.
- 15.02.1947
- Delivered as Norfolk to the Federal Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £820,000.
- 17.07.1953
- Ownership, management and operation transferred to New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd.
- 20.07.1953
- Renamed Hauraki.
- 17.05.1954
- Suffered an engineroom fire 240km (150 miles) west of Fremantle, bound Townsville to London.
- 04.02.1963
- She was the first vessel to work the new mechanical meat loaders at Bluff.
- 28.12.1966
- Ownership transferred back to Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd.
- 01.10.1971
- Management and operation transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 19.04.1973
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 22.12.1973
- Arrived at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she was delivered on the 25th to the Chin Tai Steel Enterprise Co Ltd, for demolition.