Name Northumberland Yard number 676 Launched 7 May 1955 Draft 8.76 m | Operator P&O Type Reefer Length 143 m Builder John Brown & Company | |
Owner Federal Steam Navigation Company London Fate Scrapped in Hong Kong by Leung Yau Shipbreaking Co Ltd 1978 | ||
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. 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. It was scrapped in 1978 in Hong Kong.
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