MV Northumberland (1955)

MV Northumberland was a refrigerated cargo liner built in 1955 and scrapped in 1978.

History
Name	Northumberland
Owner	Federal Steam Navigation Company London[1]
Operator	P&O[1]
Builder	John Brown & Company[1]
Yard number	676
Launched	7 May 1955
Identification	IMO number: 5257684
Fate	Scrapped in Hong Kong by Leung Yau Shipbreaking Co Ltd 1978 [1]
General characteristics
Type	Reefer
Tonnage	10,335 GT, 5,698 NT, 10,606 DWT[1]
Length	470 feet (140 m)[1]
Beam	64 feet 9 inches (19.74 m)[1]
Draught	28 feet 9 inches (8.76 m)[1]
Installed power	9,000 brake horsepower (6,700 kW)[1]
Propulsion	2 x 10 cylinder (580 x 760 mm) 2SCSA Sulzer oil engines, driving a single shaft[1]
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)[1]

She was built in 1955 for the New Zealand Shipping Company by John Brown & Co. in Clydebank, Scotland.^[1] It was later sold to P&O; then later to a Panamanian company under the name of Kavo Astrapi; and finally to Guan Guan Shipping in Singapore as Golden City.^[1] It was scrapped in 1978 in Hong Kong.^[2]