The Niceto de Larrinaga discharging phosphate from Ocean Island at Lyttelton in June 1962. Built by Short Brothers in 1959 she was lengthened at Belfast in 1964 with the addition of another hold forward of the bridge. On 23 September 1961 she collided with the French tanker Sitala and in April 1967 she was run-down while anchored off Hong Kong and badly damaged. Sold in 1972 and renamed Aegis Bounty she became Char Chun in 1978 and Char Cheng the following year. She was broken up at Kaohsiung in 1981. |