MV Aorangi (1924)

Aorangi
Career
Name: Aorangi
Namesake: Mount Cook (Maori: Aorangi)
Owner: Union Steamship Company of New Zealand (1924-1931)
Canadian Australasian Line (1931-1953)
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Yard number: 603
Launched: 17 June 1924
General characteristics
Tonnage:17491 gross tonnage
Length:600 ft (183 m)
Beam:72.2 ft (22 m)
Draught:29.9 ft (9 m)

The Aorangi was a passenger vessel built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand and launched in 1924.[1]

Career

Launched in 1924 for the Vancouver - Australia passenger route. Aorangai was fitted out as a troopship in 1941 and chartered until 1948, when she was returned to her owners.

Fate

She was broken up in 1953.

Notes

  1. "MV Aorangi". Clydesite.co.uk. Retrieved 9 September 2011.

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