MV Northumberland (1955)
# 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.

