| The Panama flag cruising ship NASSAU, 175m/ 16.504gt/ 16kn; 22/11/1918 ordered by Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., London, to W. G. Armstrong Whiteworth & Co., Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 24/08/1922 launched. The construction was delayed by postwar refits of existing ships; 26/04/1923 finally completed; 1937 laid up for sale; 1938 RIMUTAKA, transferred under l/t charter to P & O subsidiary New Zealand Shipping Company., London; 1939 requisitioned for conversion to an armed merchant cruiser due outbreak of WWll, but was released from that service before any conversion occurred; 12/05/1940 requisitioned for Liner Division, remaining in UK-New Zealand service for most of the war; 1946 RIMUTAKA, New Zealand Shipping Company., London; 1950 returned to P: & O. for sale; 03/03/1950 EUROPA, Compañia Navigacion Incres SA., Panama, mgrs. Home Lines; 1951 NASSAU, Incres Nassau Line, Panama flag, converted in Genoa into a cruising ship; 1954 NASSAU, Incres Nassau Line, Liberian flag; 1961 ACAPULCO, Natumex Line - Compañia Navegación Turistica Mexicana SA, a government owned company. She underwent a rebuild by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., Glasgow, including the fitting of new bow and funnel; 1962 she served in the Seattle Worlds Fair serving as hotel ship; 1963 laid up at Manzanillo; 15/12/1964 arrived in tow to Osaka for breaking up. |
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