Collections
Search our collections for images, objects and ship records. Get started with the search box or browse what you can see. You can also find out about our collections and how to access them.
NAESS SPIRIT (1960)
Service dates: 1973
Official number: 2233
Shipping lines: ANGLO NORDIC SHIPPING
Ship type:
Tanker.
Career
- 20.10.1959
- Keel laid.
- 12.04.1960
- Launched.
- 05.08.1960
- Delivered as Naess Spirit for Norcape Shipping Co (Bermuda) Ltd (Denholm & Co, London, managers).
- 1965
- Ownership transferred to Norcape (Liberia) Ltd.
- 05.07.1973
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired an interest in Zapata Naess Shipping Company Ltd (renamed Anglo Nordic Shipping Ltd).
- 03.1973
- Suffered a fire in her engineroom off Breast which caused substantial damage in position 48°11’N-06°00’W on a passage from Amsterdam.
- 1973
- Sold to Libmar One Inc, Liberia, and renamed Burmah Coral.
- 02.1975/06.1977
- Laid up at Pylos.
- 1977
- Sold to Dover Navigation Co, Liberia, and renamed Coral I. She was immediately resold to Taiwan shipbreakers.
- 06.11.1977
- Broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.