SHIPPING

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27753, 2 September 1955, Page 17

SHIPPING

PORT OF LYTTELTON AKBIVALS * Wsdftr tons. Meatyard, from. Wefengton. Union Steam Company. Ltd., agents. Kawaroa. mi. JIMI am.), 5500 tons, Peake, from Ardrossan. Union Steam bb’o Comoany. agents. Wahrate. m.s. (140 p.m.), 35045 tons, from Wellington. Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd., agents. DE»A«TLRES River City. m-9»’<9.41 ,pja,L 397 tons, Stewart, for Wanganui. Kinsey and Company, Ltd., agents. : Maori, t.e.s. (845 p.m.), 8303 tons. Meatyard, for Wellington. Union. Steam Ship Company, agents. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Taupata. Wellington, thia day. • Paroto. Wellington, thia. day. Pukeko, Wellington, thia day. Karamu, Timaru, this day, Maori. Wellington. September 3. Storm, Timaru, September 3. Calm, Wanganur, -September X Navua. Suva, September 4. Nordpnl, Wellington, September 4. Bedgate, Nauru. September 4. Wamui, Auckland. September 5. Nottingham, Wellington, September 9. , Fort Pirie, Wellington, September 6. Essex. Wellington,.September 6. I Cressington Court/ Wellington. Sept.' 3. Newcombia, Napiert September 9. ■ - Cal tex Bahrein. Sirtßapore, September 3. Middlesex, TimaruTSeptenber 10. Waipiata. Auckland. September 11. British. Ensign, Wellington, Sept. 20. British ’Ensign. Wellington. Sept. 20. Gothic, Port Chalmers, September 23. Port Melbourne. Wellington, Sept. 25. Kuahine, WeUingtan, September 26. ■famaros, London. September 26. Fort Nelson, New Plymouth Sept. 28. Meiwa Maru, WelliMton, September 29. Kawatin, Dunedin, September. Port Hobart, Suva, October 5. Fort Fairy, Auckland, October X Riley, Auckland. October 10. Athenic. Napier, October 13. Port Saint John, Wellington, Oct. 19. Antrim, New Plymouth, October 22. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Ficton, Wellington, this day. Purnea, Timaru, this day. Kopara, Napier, this day. Port Waikato. Raglan, this day. Hotunui, Timaru, this day. Wairata, Wellington, this day Rangatira, Wellington, tonight. Maori, Wellington, September 3. Taupata, Wellington, September X Paroto, Wellington, September 3. Storm. Wellington, September 3. Hinakura, London. September 3. Pakura, Auckland, September 5. Calm. Wanganui. September 5. Pukeko, Napier, September 5. Navua, Abia. September 6. Kaitoke, Timaru, Sep f ember 7. Hazelmoor, , September 10. Port Pine. Dunedin. Septen oer 10. Cressington Court, Wellington, Sept. 10. Essex. . September 13. Nottingham. Australia. September 17. Middlesex London. September 17. Pori Melbourne, Port Cha.mers. Sept 28 Meiwa Maru, Japan. September 29. Port Nelson. London. September 30. Gothic, London. September 30. Newcombia, Dunedin. September. Wai mate, Dunednt September Karamu, Auckland. September. Rvahine, Wellington. October 10. Riley, Dunedin, October 12. VESSELS IN PORT Koupra. GPC Hazelmoor. GPX Kawaroa, No. 2 East. Wairata. No 3 East Hinakura. No. 3 West. Waimate. No. 4 West. Pakura, No. 4 East.

NEW MAUNGANUI ON WAYTO N.Z. Union Company Ship OLD VESSEL WAS MEMBER OF R.S.A. "The Press" Special Service WF.T.T.TNGTON, September 1. The Northern Steam Ship Company’s new coaster, Maunganui, is now on its delivery voyage to New Zealand from the builders’ yards of Jac Bodewes at Hoogezaand, Holland. It is due at Tauranga about September 10 with a cargo of cement loaded at Antwerp. The name Maunganui recalls the old Union Company veteran known to many thousands of servicemen and tourists. The ship was a twin screw coal-burning steamer of 7527 tons gross. She was bum in ISII at Glasgow by the Fairfield Company, Ltd., for the Melbourne-San Francisco run in conjunction with the Tahiti and Makura. During the middle thirties ahe was withdrawn from this service and £ laced on the Svdnev run and later the (elbourne-Bluff-Lyttelton run. In the

tourist season she cruised in the Pacific islands. During the First World War the Maunganui served as a troopship and was the flagship of the main body. In 1938, with the Monowai, she took the first contingent of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association to the Anzac celebrations in Australia. The Maunganui gained additional fame during World War II as a hospital ship in the Middle East and Pacific. After 3a '-cars’ service she took her pensioningbff trip when she carried the New Zealand contingent to the Victory parade in London. On her return to Wellington the Maunganui received her last and greatest distinction—she was made a member of In 1945 the Maunganui was sold to the Compania Naviera del Atlantico S.A. and renamed Cyrena. Her port of registration was changed to Panama. . As the Cyrena, the Maunganui bade farewell to New Zealand when she departed for Greece on February 12, 1947. Her new owners refitted her to carry three classes of passengers for the Mediterranean trade, chiefly between Greek ports and Marseilles. By a strange chance, however, she Cvrena was placed for a time in the im< migrant trade between Genoa and Australia and made four trips in this service before reverting to her normal trade. She is still afloat today and according to reports has many years of useful life still left.