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Thursday 14 August 2014

British reefer Port Auckland 1949-1976 (Mashaallah 1976-1979)

Drawing made by G.J. Frans Naerebout. Earlier published in Van Zee tot Zee

IMO 5282262 and registration number  183007. Renamed 1975 Mashaallah. Gross register tonnage 11.945 tons, deadweight 12.017 tons and as dimensions 160,6 (between perpendiculars)-170,6 (over all) x 21,4 x [8,78] or 50ó x 70,0 x 29,0 feet. metres. Two screws speed 20,7 knots. Launched on 4 October 1948 at the shipyard of Clark Hawton, South Tyneside/Newcastle, United Kingdom with yard number 693to transport refrigerated meat on the line Australia-England. Completed in April 1949. Owned by the Port Line Ltd., GBR London, England. Sold on 1976 to Gulf Fisheries Co., Kuwait, converted into a livestock carrier with a gross register tonnage of 10,244 tons and renamed Mashaallah an finally broken up by Chien Iron&Steel Co., Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 30 September1979.