RANGITANE   1949





       
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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 In 1968 the Rangitane and Rangitoto were withdrawn from service and sold to Orient Overseas Line.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.


   

R.M.M.V. Rangitane

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Her Regular Service Route: Great Britain to New Zealand via the Panama Canal

London - Curacao - Panama - Panama Canal - Papeete - Wellington - Auckland

"THE NEW ZEALAND SERVICE"

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY, LONDON

(NEW ZEALAND LINE)



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