Aranui (ship)

Aranui

The Aranui in Queen Charlotte Sound, 1968

Ship data flag  New Zealand other ship names Aranui I (1984–1986) Nui (1986) Najd III (1986–1994) Ship type ferry home port Wellington Owner New Zealand Government Shipping company New Zealand Railways Shipyard Vickers-Armstrongs , Newcastle upon Tyne Build number 183 Order April 1964 Launch June 26, 1965 takeover April 1966 Commissioning June 8, 1966 Decommissioning July 1991 Whereabouts Scrapped in Bangladesh in 1994

Ship dimensions and crew length 112.2 m ( Lüa ) width 18.6 m Draft Max. 4.7 m measurement 3,821 GRT   crew 90

Machine system machine 6 × English Electric diesel electric motors Machine performance 7,790 kW (10,591 hp) Top speed 17 kn (31 km / h) propeller 2 ×

Transport capacities running track meters 235 m Permitted number of passengers 800 Vehicle capacity 118 cars

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 6517067

The Aranui was a New Zealand Railways ferry that entered service in 1966. The ship remained on the route from Wellington to Picton until 1984 and was then used under different names and areas of operation before an engine failure ended its active service in 1991. In 1994 the ferry was scrapped in Bangladesh under the name Najd III .

history

The Aranui was ordered from Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle upon Tyne in April 1964 and launched on June 26, 1965 under hull number 183. After the takeover by New Zealand Railways and the subsidiary SeaRail (from 1989 Interislander ) in April 1966, the ship started the ferry service from Wellington to Picton on June 8th.

On May 27, 1969, the Aranui collided in heavy seas with a breakwater in Wellington Harbor, damaging it and leaving it out for repair work for ten days. In May 1978 the ship went to Singapore for renovation work before resuming service on November 20, 1978.

On June 19, 1984, ended Aranui after eighteen years of serving its last crossing from Wellington to Picton and was then for sale launched . The new owner was the Najd Trading & Construction Establishment, based in Jeddah , in October 1984 , which they renamed Aranui I and, after two more years of berth, transferred to Jeddah in November 1986 under the name Nui under the Panama flag . From there, the ship began serving Aqaba and Suez on November 10th .

In February 1986 the Nui was renamed Najd III and henceforth used in the ferry service from Jeddah to Singapore. Almost five years later, in July 1991, it suffered machine damage and had to be launched in Singapore. A repair of the ship was planned for 1992, but this remained unrealized due to unpaid invoices from the owner. After a further two years of lay, the Najd III passed into the possession of a demolition yard in Chittagong , Bangladesh, on November 3, 1994 , where it was scrapped on November 20.

Web links

Commons : IMO 6517067  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
• the ship on nzmaritime.co.nz (English)
• the ship on tynebuiltships.co.uk (English)