Rangitata
1929
(Albatros AL-182)
- Type: Passenger / general cargo
- Displacement: 16,737 tons
- Dimensions: 553 x 70 x 34 ft.
- Machinery: Sulzer diesels, twin screw, 10,500 BHP = 15 knots
- Passengers: 595 (100 first class, 85 second class, 410 third class)
- Builder: John Brown & Company, Limited, Clydebank, Scotland, 1929
- Service: Built for New Zealand Shipping Company (British flag) England-New Zealand service via Panama. Maiden voyage 22 Nov 1929 Southampton-Wellington. Troopship, 1941-48. Refitted by Brown at Clydebank 1948-49; 16,969 GRT, new Doxford diesels, with space for 123 first class, 288 tourist class. First postwar sailing 23 Sep 1949 London-Wellington. Sold to Yugoslavian shipbreakers, 1962; broken up at Split.
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