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ST. OLA (1974)
Service dates: 1974-1993
Official number: 359089
Shipping lines: P&O SHORT SEA SHIPPING; NORTH OF SCOTLAND, ORKNEY & SHETLAND SHIPPING COMPANY; P&O FERRIES; P&O SCOTTISH FERRIES
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.
Career
- 23.03.1973
- Ordered.
- 24.01.1974
- Launched.
- 29.10.1974
- Delivered as St Ola for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd (P&O Short Sea Shipping Division, managers).
- 31.03.1975
- P&O Ferries appointed managers.
- 17.03.1977
- Registered under North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Shipping Co Ltd.
- 27.10.1978
- Ownership transferred to P&O Ferries Ltd.
- 27.10.1982
- Suffered a severe fire in her engineroom while in the Firth of Clyde, having just completed her annual refit. Her engineroom was gutted but she was towed to Clydedock Engineering Co Ltd, Govan for repair.
- 07.02.1983
- Returned to service.
- 31.05.1985
- Management transferred to POETS Fleet Management Ltd, the operating company was now P&O Ferries Ltd.
- 01.01.1989
- Owner’s name changed from P&O Ferries Ltd to P&O Scottish Ferries Ltd.
- 11.12.1989
- Re-delivered after a refit by A & P Appledore, Aberdeen.
- 31.12.1990
- Re-measured. Depth now 5.03m (16.5ft) moulded to main deck. Capacity now 400 passengers, 65 cars, 4 trailers, 80 cattle, 400 sheep with two transverse thrusters forward.
- 24.02.1992
- Renamed St Ola II.
- 13.10.1992
- Renamed Cecilia and bareboat chartered for one year to Svenska Rederi AB, Kattegat, for their Helsingborg/Hundested service. Registry transferred to Nassau, Bahamas; Call sign C6LH7.
- 01.12.1992
- Laid up at Helsingborg when the service was suspended.
- 26.01.1993
- Laid up at Leith after her charter terminated.
- 28.04.1993
- Sold to Intercontinental Energy SA, Panama, and renamed Odigitria. No further details.