RANGITOTO
IMO 5290179
1949 completed by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle
for New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd., Plymouth
21.809GRT, 15.000tdw, 16.000bhp 2 2SA 6Cy. Doxford, 2 screws, 16.5kn
436 passengers one class
Sister ship: Rangitane (1949 by John Brown)
Route U.K.-New Zealand via Panama Canal,
HORORATA
1942 completed by John Brown Co. Ltd., Clydebank
for New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd., Plymouth
12.090GRT, 14.246tdw, 6 steam turbines geared to 2 sc.shafts, 16kn
She was in the 1940-ties one of the largest refrigerated vessels in the world. On her regular run she would not call at the port