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STORMONT (1954)
Service dates: 1971-1976
Official number: 185507
Shipping lines: TYNE TEES; P&O SHORT SEA SHIPPING; P&O FERRIES; P&O FERRIES (GENERAL EUROPEAN)
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 20.09.1954
- Launched by Mrs Gordon Beazley.
- 12.1954
- Delivered as Fife Coast for Coast Lines Ltd, Liverpool.
- 20.06.1958
- Transferred to William Sloan & Co Ltd, Glasgow, and renamed Fruin.
- 24.12.1963
- Transferred to Belfast Steamship Co Ltd, Belfast, and renamed Stormont.
- 10.1965
- Transferred to Coast Lines Ltd, Liverpool.
- 13.12.1966
- Transferred to Tyne-Tees Shipping Company Ltd, Newcastle.
- 26.02.1971
- Tyne-Tees Shipping Company Ltd acquired by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 01.10.1971
- P&O Short Sea Shipping Ltd, appointed managers.
- 31.03.1975
- Management transferred to P&O Ferries.
- 16.07.1976
- Ownership transferred to P&O Ferries (General European) Ltd (P&O Ferries, managers).
- 14.10.1976
- Sold to Farouk Rassem, W Moukahal and Ahmed Hassan Zeido (Union Commercial Co, managers) Lebanon, and renamed Rabunion VII.
- 1992
- Sold to Baraa Z Shipping Co SARL (Zeido Hassan Zeido, manager) Beirut, and renamed Baraa Z.
- 06.1994
- Broken up at Tripoli, Lebanon.