Rangitoto
1949
(Albatros AL-170)
- Type: Passenger / general cargo
- Displacement: 21,809 tons
- Dimensions: 609 x 78 ft.
- Machinery: Doxford diesels, twin screw, 16,000 bhp = 17 knots
- Passengers: 416 (one class)
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuilders, Limited, Newcastle, England, 1949
- Service: Rangitoto built for New Zealand Shipping Company (British flag). Maiden voyage 25 Aug 1949 London-Wellington, New Zealand, service via Panama Canal. To Federal SN co 1967 but continued on same service. Sold to Orient Overseas Line (Liberian flag), 1969; renamed Oriental Carnaval. First voyage in around the world service from San Diego Apr 1970. Scrapped at Hong Kong. Near sister Rangitane built by Brown, Clydebank in 1949 also for the London-Wellington service.
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