MV Rangitiane leaving Auckland for the final time 30/3/1968
Built 1949 by John Brown 21867 GRT
1968 Sold and renamed Jan , made one voyage with cargo only to Australia then sold to breakers at Kaohsiung.
Resold and resumed service as cargo passenger liner Oriental Esmeralda.
Broken up 1976 at Ka
MV Rangitiane leaving Auckland for the final time 30/3/1968
Built 1949 by John Brown 21867 GRT
1968 Sold and renamed Jan , made one voyage with cargo only to Australia then sold to breakers at Kaohsiung.
Resold and resumed service as cargo passenger liner Oriental Esmeralda.
Broken up 1976 at Ka
New Zealand Shipping Company's Rangitane, Clydebank 1929, passing through Miraflores Lock in the Panama Canal in the thirties. The tanker belonged to the Standard Oil Company of California.
This photograph is so sharp and clean that it may have been taken on this ill-fated ship's maiden voyage. The Rangitane, youngest of the three Rangi-sisters, launched in 1929, was sunk by the German raiders Orion and Komet in 1940.