MV Mairangi Bay was a container ship owned by Overseas Containers Limited (OCL). It was named after the suburb of Mairangi Bay in Auckland, New Zealand.
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MV Mairangi Bay was a container ship owned by Overseas Containers Limited (OCL). It was named after the suburb of Mairangi Bay in Auckland, New Zealand.
MV Mairangi Bay was launched on 9 January 1978 and completed for OCL on 28 April 1978. She was scrapped in 2002 in Kobe, Japan. The ship was one of two identical sisters built by Bremer Vulkan shipyard in West Germany, the other being the MV Resolution Bay. A third ship - the New Zealand Pacific - operated by The New Zealand Shipping Corporation, was save in minor details, identical to the two Bay ships. Owner OCL was to later become P&O Containers Ltd, which itself merged with Nedlloyd Lines to become P&O Nedlloyd. Mairangi Bay operated for all three entities, mainly on the United Kingdom/Europe to Australia/New Zealand route.
Mairangi Bay was scrapped in 2002 at Shanghai, China. [1] [2]
In 2002 P&O Nedlloyd named a new ship P&O Mairangi (IMO 9244881, later renamed Maersk Denton, MSC Marbella, Santa Rufina then MSC Arushi R. [3]
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