The vessel in the foreground is the NEW ZEALAND PACIFIC (see index) and the other vessel is the COLUMBUS AUSTRALIA.
Built under yard no 16 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft A.G., Hamburg for the Containerschiffsreederei SS “Columbus Australia” Rudolf A Oetker K.G.
09 March 1971 launched under the name COLUMBUS AUSTRALIA.
Tonnage 19.146 gross, 10.795 net, 21.655 dwt. Dim. 193.99 x 29.37 x 10.85m.
Powered by two steam turbines manufactured by A.G. Weser, Bremen 25.000 hp. speed 22 knots, double geared to a single screw.
Cargo capacity of 1.187 TEU’s Crew 38. Passenger accommodation for 12 passengers.
Used in the Columbus Line East Coast North America to Australia/New Zealand. She was managed by Hamburg Süd.
1986 The steam turbine was replaced by a 6 cyl. C.S.A. MAN oil engine manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Japan, 12.000 hp., speed 18.5 knots.
She was sold by Merchant Marine Corp. (Columbus Shipmanagement G.m.b.H.) Liberia to China National Shipbreaking Corp. (CNSC) and arrived Jiangyin previous to 01 July 1999. She was broken up by the Jiangyin Shipbreaking yard at Xiaging on the River Yangtze in 1999.
New Zealand 1980 50c sg 1224
Source: The Hamburg South America Line by James Cooper, Arnold Kludas and Joachim Pein. A World Ship Society publication. Marine News 1999/631.