Aorangi
1924
(Albatros AL-22N)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 17,491 tons
- Dimensions: 600 x 72 x 28 ft.
- Machinery: Sulzer diesels, quadruple screw, 13,000 shp = 17.5 knots
- Passengers: 947 (436 first class, 284 second class, 227 third class)
- Crew: 328
- Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Glasgow, Scotland, 1924
- Service: Built for Union Steamship Company of New Zealand (British flag). Maiden voyage 2 Jan 1925 Southampton-Vancouver. Vancouver-Australia service beginning 6 Feb. Transferred to Canadian Australasian Line, 1931 (British flag). Passenger accommodation altered 1938 to 248 first class, 266 cabin class, 125 third class. Troop transport, 1940-44, then accommodation and depot ship in Pacific ports. Released from naval service Apr 1946; refitted for 212 first class, 170 cabin class, 104 third class. First postwar sailing 19 Aug 1948 Sydney-Vancouver, returning to Vancouver-Australia service. Scrapped in Scotland, 1953.
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