New Zealand Shipping Line's mv Mataura prepares for departure from Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, on the early morning tide in 1970 with assistance from Liverpool tugs North Buoy and North Wall. Built and launched in 1967 at Tamano, for P. & O. Steam Navigation, becoming Mataura with Federal Steam Navigation in 1968 until 1971, she was then renamed Wild Mallard with Lauritzen Peninsular Reefers until 1981 when she was sold to Hampton Shipping Corp and renamed Macedonian Reefer. This lasted until 1987 when sold again, she became Maracaibo Reefer with her new owners National Renewal Cia Nav S.A., Piraeus. However, this only lasted a year and in 1988 she was sold once more, this time to International Reefer Services S.A. renamed Bolero Reefer. Finally in 1996 she carried her final name Corrado, until withdrawn some years later.
It was quite common for a merchant ship to be renamed through its working career as companies disposed of vessels not required, but not many carried this many names in peacetime. Merchant ships often remained with the same company and had the same name throughout their entire service which could exceed 30 years. (Wallace Trickett oil painting)
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Mataura me lembra Madaura. Madaura foi onde estudou Santo Agostinho, nordeste da atual Argélia na África no século IV. Entre milhares de filosofias de Santo Agostinho vejamos esta: "A oração leva o homem a uma outra concepção do tempo. Sem a perspectiva da eternidade e da trancendência o tempo simplesmente cadencia o humano a um horizonte sem futuro."
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