ST. CLAIR II (1965)

Service dates: 1973-1992

Official number: 361861

Shipping lines: SOUTHERN FERRIES; P&O FERRIES; P&O SCOTTISH FERRIES; POETS FLEET MANAGEMENT LTD.; P&O SHORT SEA SHIPPING

Ship type:

• Ferry

Roll on/Roll off Passenger Ferry.

Career

16.03.1964

Keel laid.

30.10.1964

Launched.

12.03.1965

Delivered as Peter Pan for Partenreederei ms Peter Pan.

10.10.1973

Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and renamed S F Panther.

17.11.1973

Acted as a relief ship on Normandy Ferries’ Southampton/Le Havre route.

04.12.1973

Ownership transferred to Southern Ferries Ltd.

22.12.1973

Entered service on Southern Ferries’ Southampton/San Sebastian service.

02.1975

Completed 5-week refit at Chantiers de Normandie, Le Havre.

31.03.1975

Management transferred to P&O Ferries Ltd.

14.11.1975

Re-measured.

15.11.1975

Southampton/Pasajes route closed.

06.12.1975

Renamed Terje Vigen for charter to Oslo-Aarhus Linie.

1977

Refitted at North East Coast Ship Repairers, South Shields.

30.03.1977

Renamed St Clair for operation by P&O Ferries Orkney & Shetland Services.

04.04.1977

Inaugurated Aberdeen/Lerwick roll-on/roll-off service.

30.10.1978

Ownership transferred to P&O Ferries Ltd.

09.05.1983

Chartered for a trip to Gothenburg.

1984

£2 million refit at Humber Graving Dock & Engineering, Immingham.

05.1985

Management transferred to POETS Fleet Management Ltd.

04.09.1987

Mini-cruise Aberdeen/Southampton/Esbjerg.

01.01.1989

Owners P&O Ferries Ltd renamed P&O Scottish Ferries Ltd.

03.10.1991

Two women passengers taken off by helicopter.

17.02.1992

Renamed St Clair II.

30.06.1992

Sold to Perbadanan Nasional Shipping Line Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and renamed Nusa Pejuang.

12.1997

Sold to Indian shipbreakers.

09.01.1998

Arrived at Mumbai, India for demolition.

11.11.1998

Demolition commenced.

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