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RANGITATA (1929)
Service dates: 1929-1968
Official number: 149564
Shipping lines: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 17.10.1929
- Completed as Rangitata for the New Zealand Shipping Company at a cost of £577,300.
- 22.11.1929
- Sailed from Southampton on her first New Zealand sailing to Auckland.
- 17.07.1930
- Rescued the passengers and crew from the burning steamer Targis.
- 1933
- Passenger accommodation updated to 100 first class and 495 tourist class.
- 15.10.1936
- Ownership transferred to Federal Steam Navigation company without a change of name.
- 04.12.1939/15.08.1946
- Requisitioned as a personnel ship with a capacity for 2,600 troops.
- 19.03.1940/27.12.1940
- Remained on Government charters until 2nd November 1948.
- 26.03.1943
- Attacked by enemy aircraft north of Algiers.
- 11.05.1948
- Suffered a fire in the galley when bound Auckland to London.
- 1949
- Re-engined with two 6-cylinder 2 SCSA Doxford diesels. Passenger capacity updated to 123 first class and 288 tourist class.
- 01.11.1957
- Suffered an engine breakdown and put into Falmouth for repairs.
- 08.03.1958
- Suffered a galley fire in the Royal Albert Dock, London.
- 02.01.1960
- Suffered an engine breakdown in the Atlantic and repairs were effected at sea.
- 16.05.1962
- Sold for £193,500 and arrived at Split for breaking up.