title: MV Northumberland (1955)
text: # MV Northumberland (1955)
  
  History :
  
  | Name | Northumberland |
  | - | - |
  | Owner | Federal Steam Navigation Company London |
  | Operator | P&O |
  | Builder | John Brown & Company |
  | Yard number | 676 |
  | Launched | 7 May 1955 |
  | Identification | IMO number: 5257684 |
  | Fate | Scrapped in Hong Kong by Leung Yau Shipbreaking Co Ltd 1978 |
  | General characteristics ||
  | Type | Reefer |
  | Tonnage | 10,335 GT, 5,698 NT, 10,606 DWT |
  | Length | 470 feet (140 m) |
  | Beam | 64 feet 9 inches (19.74 m) |
  | Draught | 28 feet 9 inches (8.76 m) |
  | Installed power | 9,000 brake horsepower (6,700 kW) |
  | Propulsion | 2 x 10 cylinder (580 x 760 mm) 2SCSA Sulzer oil engines, driving a single shaft |
  | Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
  
  MV Northumberland was a refrigerated cargo liner built in 1955 and scrapped in 1978.
  
  She was built in 1955 for the New Zealand Shipping Company by John Brown & Co. in Clydebank, Scotland. 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. It was scrapped in 1978 in Hong Kong.
  
  