TEV Rangatira
steamship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- TEV Rangatira
- IMO number
- 7111731
- MMSI
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- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- steamship
- Gross tonnage
- —
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 152.6 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1972
- Builder
- Swan Hunter
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About TEV Rangatira
TEV Rangatira was a roll-on/roll-off vehicle and passenger ferry launched in 1971 for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. She was the world's last surviving passenger ship with steam-powered turbo-electric transmission. (Modern turbo-electric ships, including RMS Queen Mary 2 and Millennium-class cruise ships such as Celebrity Millennium, have gas turbines.) Rangatira had a varied existence, including serving as an accommodation ship and barracks ship between 1977 and 1983. The Union Company sold her in 1986 and she returned to being a ferry. From 1986 onwards, she passed through a succession of owners who renamed her three times and registered her under three different flags of convenience: as Queen M in 1986, Carlo R in 1990 and Alexander the Great in 2001. After a failed attempt to convert the vessel into a cruise ship she was scrapped in 2005.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is TEV Rangatira now?
- TEV Rangatira has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is TEV Rangatira?
- TEV Rangatira is a steamship, built in 1972 by Swan Hunter. The vessel is 152.6 m long.
- Has TEV Rangatira been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for TEV Rangatira appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).