Hinemoa

		Union Steam Ship Company's
		S.S. "Hinemoa"

	Built:	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
	ON:	343007
	Dimensions:	419' x 58' x 29' feet
	Tonnage:	Gross: 6,911
	Propulsion:	Steam driven turbo electric driving twin screws with a cruising speed of 22 kts.
	Type:	Passenger/Car Ferry with a capacity of 914 single class passengers
	Launched:	30/03/1946 as Hinemoa for Union Steamship Co. Ltd.
	Completed:	21/12/1946
	Maiden Voyage:	10/02/1947 to Lyttelton , commanded by Captain F. W. Collins
	Sold:	19/10/1967 to the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania and renamed the George H. Evans.
	Sold:	1969 to the Hammersley Iron Ore Co Ltd for accommodation and power generating services at Dampier in Western Australia.
	Sold:	by auction in 10/ 2001 for Ł500,000 to Oberon Cruise Line, Limassol, Cyprus and renamed Carlo C
	Towed:	1971 to Hong Kong where she arrived 19/3/1971 for demolition

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	The George.H.Evans at Beauty Point, Tasmania ~ Photograph Š Fraser Darrah

	The ship in the photograph is the Hinemoa, 6911gt, 419' L, 58' Beam, twin-screw turbo/electric, the first major post WW2 passenger ship built in Britain. Built by Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness and delivered in 1946, she arrived in Wellington on 26 January 1947 and entered the Wellington-Lyttleton service for Union Steam Ship Company, on 10 February 1947. She was laid up in Wellington in August 1966 after the arrival of the Wahine. Sold to the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania (hence her appearance in Beauty Point) in 1967, renamed George H Evans (what's the betting he was a politician?) she served as a floating power station at Bell Bay, Tasmania. She later served in the same capacity at Dampier, Western Australia, before being sold to ship breakers in Hong Kong where she arrived undertow on 19 March 1971.
	"Ships of Wellington - The Past 50 Years" by Victor Young with thanks to Don Skinner

	*Links: The New Zealand Maritime Record - T.E.V Hinemoa* New Zealand Coastal Shipping**

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