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DUNEDIN /  MONTE PASCOAL

BUILT BY SWAN HUNTERS AT WALLSEND IN 1980, SHE WAS 18,140 TONS AND DELIVERED TO THE BANK-SHAW LINE PARTNERSHIP.

 HER CONSORT, ORIGINALLY ON THE NEW RUN WAS ANDREW WEIR'S ( BANK LINE ) 'WILLOW BANK'.

THEY RAN FROM AUSTRALASIA , CARIBBEAN AND SOUTHERN U.S PORTS AND BACK AGAIN.

THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SHAW SAVILL & ALBION AND ANDREW WEIR'S CAME TO AN END IN 1984.

DUNEDIN WAS THEN CHARTERED TO THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CORPORATION AND USED ON THE CITRUS TRADE ROUTE FROM THE WEST COAST OF THE U.S TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

 IN 1986 DUNEDIN WAS SOLD TO THE HAMBURG-SUD DG.

 

 

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