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
Identification	IMO number:  5257684
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. Cameron, Stuart. "m v NORTHUMBERLAND". Clydebuilt Ships Database. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. 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