MV Aorangi was a transpacific ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship.

Since the first decade of the 20th century the Union Company had operated the Sydney – Vancouver mail ship route.

[3] In 1920 the Union Company revived its plan for a new liner to share the transpacific route with Niagara.

That June it announced that the new ship would be propelled by reduction-geared turbines like HMS Avenger, and capable of 18 knots (33 km/h) like Niagara.

[9] Aorangi was propelled by four screws, each driven by a Fairfield-Sulzer ST70[8] single-acting two-stroke diesel engine.

[6] She also supplanted Niagara as the largest and swiftest ship in the Union Company fleet.

[11] After extensive sea trials Aorangi sailed from the Clyde to Southampton, where on 2 January 1925 she began her maiden voyage to Vancouver via the Panama Canal and Los Angeles.

[6] In 1931 the Union Company anticipated competition from Matson Line of the USA, which had ordered two new liners, Mariposa and Monterey, to run between the West Coast of the United States and Australia via Hawaii, Fiji and New Zealand.

[8] In 1934 the wireless call sign GDVB[13] superseded Niagara's code letters KRVH.

Canadian Pacific's Chairman, Sir Edward Beatty, sought support from the governments of the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji to improve Canadian-Australasian's trans-pacific service.

He proposed a pair of 22,000 GRT, 22-knot (41 km/h) liners at a cost of £2.5 million if the governments would subsidise the service.

That October Canadian-Australasian Line introduced a 33 percent war surcharge on passenger fares.

[20] By October 1940 Aorangi was a troop ship, and in 1941 the UK Ministry of War Transport requisitioned her.

Because of the Japanese attacks 8 December 1941, there was a reorganization of the ships, their loads and destinations in Durban.

On 13 January 1942, convoy DM 1 arrives in Singapore [29] In the Allied invasion of Normandy, she was a depot ship.

[8] Canadian-Australasian Line sought a subsidy from the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian governments to continue the service.

[8] On 25 July she reached Dalmuir on the River Clyde to be scrapped by WH Arnott, Young and Co.[6]