MV Northumberland (1955)

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
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]

MV Northumberland was a refrigerated cargo liner built in 1955 and scrapped in 1978.

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Cameron, Stuart. "m v NORTHUMBERLAND". Clydebuilt Ships Database. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "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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