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TOR BAY (1982)
Service dates: 1982-1993
Official number: 399163
Shipping lines: OVERSEAS CONTAINERS LTD.; P&O CONTAINERS
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 27.11.1980
- Ordered.
- 02.03.1982
- Launched.
- 02.07.1982
- Delivered as Tor Bay for Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 28.05.1986
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired full control of Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 01.01.1987
- Owners renamed P&O Containers Ltd.
- 1987
- Deadweight now 34,477 tonnes.
- 03.09.1988
- Collided with the escorting destroyer HMS Southampton, on Armilla Patrol duties in the Gulf of Oman, about 55km (33 miles) north-east of Fujairah at 2043hrs, on passage Nagoya to Bahrein. Eleven of the warship’s crew suffered injuries while the ship received a 6-foot hole in the port bow; Southampton docked at Fujairah for repairs before returning to the UK aboard a semi-submersible heavy-lift ship, while Tor Bay spent fourteen days at Dubai United Dockyards.
- 18.03.1991
- Sold By P&O Containers Ltd to Howill Shipping Ltd and then hire-purchased back.
- 23.04.1991
- Registry transferred to Hong Kong. Official number now HK0017. Call sign now VRRT.
- 12.1991
- Capacity amended to 2,159 teu (121 refrigerated)
- 1992
- Attacked on two separate occasions by pirates in south-east Asian waters.
- 27.09.1993
- Sold by Howill Shipping Ltd to China Ocean Shipping Company. A joint deal also including Providence Bay was struck for $50 million. Renamed Maple River.
- 2002
- Sold and renamed Xin Jin Zhou.
- Still reported in service