Rangitoto sold for scrap
The Rangitoto, the last passenger vessel to run exclusively between New Zealand and Britain, has been sold for scrap. In her heyday during the 1959 s and 19605, the Rangitoto (16,661 tons), with the Rangitane and Ruahine, brought thousands of British immigrants to New Zealand,, as well as taking many New!
| Zealanders on trips to Britlain and Europe. Owned bv the now-defunct New Zealand Shipping Company, the Rangitoto was taken off the New Zealand run in 1969, and ended her life as the Oriental Carnaval. I Her last owner, Oriental I South America Lines, has
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34131, 19 April 1976, Page 17
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99Rangitoto sold for scrap Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34131, 19 April 1976, Page 17
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