Future Unknown

Aorangi Off Run And

THE 17,940-ton liner Aorangi, the last passenger ship on the Sydney-North America service, is now laid up in Sydney, awaiting a buyer.

Shortly after she reached Sydney on her last voyage on January 31, her owners (Canadian-Australian Line, Ltd.) announced that she would be tied up at the pylons at Bradley’s Head, Sydney Harbour, where she will escape port dues, and there she will remain until sold.

Since going back on the Pacific service late in 1948 Aorangi has lost about £600,000 for her owners.

Captain W. Whitefield, Canadian Master of Aorangi will probably go to the Union Company’s Waitemata. He had been with Aorangi since 1944, when she was a mother-ship for tugs during the Normandy invasion. Later, she became a 300-bed hospital for invasion casualties.