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ARDTARAIG (1969)
Service dates: 1969-1979
Official number: 337114
Shipping lines: TRIDENT TANKERS LTD.; P&O BULK SHIPPING
Ship type:
Tanker.
Career
- 20.06.1968
- Keel laid. The first of four sisters ordered by P&O, followed by Ardshiel, Ardlui and Ardvar.
- 09.12.1998
- Launched.
- 29.03.1969
- Named by Mrs Mizukami.
- 31.03.1969
- Delivered as Ardtaraig to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (Trident Tankers Ltd, managers). At the time, she was the largest ship in the P&O fleet. Placed on a ten-year time-charter to British Petroleum. Ardtaraig is a ‘seat’ at Inverlochaolain, Argyllshire.
- 14.06.1969
- Arrived at Angle Bay Terminal, Milford Haven, at the end of her maiden voyage from Japan via the Gulf.
- 16.08.1971
- Management and operations transferred to P&O Bulk Shipping Division.
- 1974
- One of the first two P&O ships given painted hull markings for Lloyd’s Register trials of in-water surveys.
- 11.05.1979
- Sold for about £2.75 million to Fineas Compania Naviera SA, Greece and renamed Kypros.
- 20.11.1982
- Entered service as a storage vessel at Bangkok.
- 1982
- Sold for scrap to Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co Ltd, South Korea.
- 29.07.1982
- Arrived at Ulsan from Bangkok.
- 05.08.1982
- Demolition commenced.