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CUMBERLAND (1948)
Service dates: 1948-1976
Official number: 182901
Shipping lines: FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 11.08.1948
- Launched by Mrs H S Whitehouse.
- 12.12.1948
- Delivered as Cumberland to the Federal Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £869,000. She was a sister to New Zealand Shipping Company’s Haparangi.
- 12.1962
- Suffered a fire in the electrical switchboard at Wellington.
- 03.11.1967
- Had a cargo fire while at Auckland which was extinguished without damage to the vessel.
- 25.07.1971
- Fire in wool cargo in No.4 hold 50km (30 miles) from Auckland inward bound from Port Chalmers.
- 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.
- 04.02.1976
- Collided with motor tug Mahia when berthing at Napier.
- 25.12.1976
- Sold to Nan Feng Steel Enterprise Co Ltd, Taiwan for demolition at Kaohsiung.
- 10.03.1977
- Demolition commenced.