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STRATHDOON (1976)
Service dates: 1976-1981
Official number: 366313
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 1973
- Ordered. The 50-ton derrick was additional to the standard SD-14 specification.
- 08.03.1976
- Keel laid.
- 12.07.1976
- Launched by Mrs Sheila MacIver Robinson, wife of Mr D MacIver Robinson, Surveyor General of the Marine Department of the Department of Trade.
- 29.10.1976
- Completed as Strathdoon for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 11.1978
- Placed on the USA/Gulf service.
- 10.1980
- Placed on the UK/India service.
- 11.11.1981
- Sold to Bettina Shipping Co Ltd, Valletta, Malta (Empresa Navegacion Mambisa (Government of Cuba), Havana, Cuba) and renamed Emerald Islands.
- 1994
- Management transferred to Nippon Caribbean Shipping Co Ltd, Tokyo, Japan (Government of Cuba, Havana).
- 1996
- Management transferred to Empresa Navegacion Mambisa (Government of Cuba), Havana.
- 1997
- Renamed Wavel.
- 1997
- Sold to Skimmer Ltd, Malta (Seabirds Management Inc, Piraeus) and renamed Skimmer, under the Panamanian flag.
- 11.09.2002
- Arrived at Gadani Beach, Pakistan, to be broken up.