RANGITANE
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RETURN TO THE HOMEPAGE
THE OCEAN LINERS |
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Welcome to our Rangitane website celebrating this stylish and beautiful ship. With the success of the prewar Rangitiki and Rangitata, the New Zealand Shipping Company decided to build three new ships in the postwar period. These were the Rangitoto and Rangitane both completed in 1949 and the smaller Ruahine completed in 1951. These were the final three ships built for the New Zealand Shipping Company. The
Rangitane was built by Vickers Armstrong Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne in
1949 and was named to honour her prewar precessor which was torpedoed
and sunk in 1940. She sailed on the London to New Zealand service via
the Panama Canal until 1965 when she was transferred to Federal Steam
Navigation Company (Federal Line). In 1968 the Rangitane and Rangitoto
were withdrawn from service and sold to Orient Overseas Line. The
Rangitane was renamed Oriental Esmeralda by Orient Overseas Line and
served on the round-the-world service from 1969. In 1972 she was
retired from service and in 1976 was sold to Taiwanese breakers in
Kaoshiung. This
website aims to record the history of this fine ocean liner and
act as
a virtual home to honour and celebrate this fine ship. We hope you
enjoy this
website and when you leave we hope you will visit again soon.
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R.M.M.V. Rangitane
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London - Curacao - Panama - Panama Canal - Papeete - Wellington - Auckland "THE NEW ZEALAND
SERVICE" (NEW ZEALAND LINE)
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(c) The AJN Transport Britain Collection 2010 A Edward Elliott