MV Northumberland (1955)
MV Northumberland was a refrigerated cargo liner built in 1955 and scrapped in 1978.
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Northumberland |
| Owner: | Federal Steam Navigation Company London[1] |
| Operator: | P&O[1] |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company[1] |
| Yard number: | 676 |
| Launched: | 7 May 1955 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 5257684 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in Hong Kong by Leung Yau Shipbreaking Co Ltd 1978 [1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Reefer |
| Tonnage: | 10,335 GT, 5,698 NT, 10,606 DWT[1] |
| Length: | 470 feet (140 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 64 feet 9 inches (19.74 m)[1] |
| Draught: | 28 feet 9 inches (8.76 m)[1] |
| Installed power: | 9,000 brake horsepower (6,700 kW)[1] |
| Propulsion: | 2 x 10 cylinder (580 x 760 mm) 2SCSA Sulzer oil engines, driving a single shaft[1] |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)[1] |
She was built in 1955 for the New Zealand Shipping Company by John Brown & Co. in Clydebank, Scotland.[1] It was later sold to P&O; then later to a Panamanian company under the name of Kavo Astrapi; and finally to Guan Guan Shipping in Singapore as Golden City.[1] It was scrapped in 1978 in Hong Kong.[2]
References
- Cameron, Stuart. "m v NORTHUMBERLAND". Clydebuilt Ships Database. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2015.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- "Paintings by Wallace Trickett of New Zealand: MV Northumberland". Blue Star on the Web. Retrieved 14 November 2014. Includes painting of the ship
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