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The New Zealand Shipping Company (NZSC) was a shipping company whose ships ran passenger and cargo services between Great Britain and New Zealand between 1873 and 1973. A group of Christchurch businessmen [1] founded the company in 1873, similar groups formed in the other main centres, to counter the dominance of the Shaw Savill line controlled ...
SS Rotorua was a New Zealand Shipping Company steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship that was built in Scotland in 1910 and sunk by a U-boat in 1917. She was not the only NZ Shipping Co ship to be called Rotorua. There was also a ship that was launched in 1911 as Shropshire for the Federal Steam Navigation Company, transferred to the NZ ...
Merchant ships of New Zealand include all merchant ships designed, built, or operated by New Zealand. ... Ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company (13 P) U.
MS. Rangitane. (1929) MS Rangitane was a passenger liner owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company. She was one of three sister ships (the other sisters were Rangitata and Rangitiki) delivered to the company in 1929 for the All-Red Route between Britain and New Zealand. Rangitane was built by John Brown & Company and launched on 27 May 1929.
Launched by Harland and Wolff in 1910 for White Star, serves cargo New Zealand routes jointly with Shaw, Savill and Albion Line, used as troop carrier in WWI. Sold to Aberdeen Line in 1926 under Mamilius. Sold back to SS&A in 1932 under Mamari, renamed ' Mamari III in 1934 serving Australian routes.
There is a total of 3,898 km of railway line in New Zealand, built to the narrow gauge of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). Of this, 506 km is electrified. The national network's land is owned by New Zealand Railways Corporation, and the network owner and major rail transport operator is the state-owned enterprise KiwiRail. The national network consists of ...
Pages in category "Ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company". The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The Shipping Corporation of New Zealand was a New Zealand shipping company created by the Third Labour Government led by Norman Kirk in 1973. Background [ edit ] Norman Kirk advocated for the creation of a New Zealand-owned shipping line as leader of the Opposition, which was Labour's policy at the 1969 and 1972 elections.