MV Port Fairy
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| Name: | MV Port Fairy |
| Namesake: | Port Fairy, Victoria |
| Owner: | Commonwealth and Dominion Line |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom |
| Yard number: | 1339 |
| Launched: | 18 July 1928 |
| Completed: | October 1928 |
| Fate: | Sold to Embajada Cia. Naviera SA of Piraeus |
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| Name: | MV Taishikan |
| Owner: | Embajada Compania Naviera SA of Piraeus |
| Acquired: | 1965 |
| Identification: | Official number: 5528236 |
| Fate: | Broken up at Hong Kong on 4 June 1965 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 8072 GRT |
| Length: | 477.4 ft (145.5 m) |
| Beam: | 63.4 ft (19.3 m) |
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| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
MV Port Fairy was a UK merchant vessel built in 1928 for the Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd (or "Port Line") shipping company and sold in 1965 to Embajada Compania Naviera SA of Piraeus. Named after the coastal town of Port Fairy in Australia, she was renamed Taishikan for her final commercial voyage to Hong Kong where she was scrapped.
Port Fairy, 8072 GRT, was built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend in 1928. She had a length of 147 m (482 ft 3 in), a beam of 19.3 m (63 ft 4 in) and a service speed of 15 knots.
In 1930 her refrigeration equipment was modified and she carried the first cargo of chilled meat (instead of frozen meat) from Australia; she later worked the same cargo from New Zealand.
Port Fairy had an eventful war employed as an ammunition ship.
Sailing in fast convoy OL8 from Liverpool to Canada on 22 October 1940, Port Fairy collided with the Canadian destroyer Margaree in rough seas about 300 miles (483 km) west of Ireland (position 53°24′N 22°50′W / 53.400°N 22.833°W.). Margaree sank quickly; her captain, four officers and 136 crew were lost. Port Fairy rescued 34 of the survivors.
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