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PEGASUS BAY (1978)
Service dates: 1991-2002
Official number: 377502
Shipping lines: P&O CONTAINERS; P&O NEDLLOYD LTD.
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 16.09.1977
- Launched.
- 02.1978
- Completed as City of Durban for Ellerman and Harrison Lines (Ellerman City Lines, operators).
- 1983
- Renamed Portland Bay for charter to Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 1984
- Renamed City of Durban at the conclusion of the charter to OCL.
- 1985
- Transferred to Associated Container Transport (ACT) consortium and renamed ACT 8.
- 1990
- Reverted to Ellerman City Lines and renamed City of Durban.
- 14.10.1991
- 65.625% interest acquired by P&O Containers Ltd as part of P&O purchase of Cunard-Ellerman container shipping interests.
- 17.07.1996
- Renamed Pegasus Bay. Transferred to Europe/Australia and New Zealand service.
- 31.12.1996
- P&O Containers Ltd renamed P&O Nedlloyd Ltd and reduced to P&O associate by establishment of P&O Nedlloyd Container Lines Ltd.
- 08.1998
- P&O Nedlloyd acquired minority shares in Ellerman Harrison Container Line and thereby in Charente Steamship Company Ltd. Now 100% owned by P&O Nedlloyd.
- 19.10.2002
- Broken up at Jiangyin, China.