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FERNFIELD (1954)
Service dates: 1971
Official number: 301284
Shipping lines: COAST LINES SERVICES; P&O SHORT SEA SHIPPING
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 25.09.1954
- Launched.
- 11.1954
- Delivered as Haaksbergen for N V Zuid-hollandsche Scheepv Maats, The Netherlands.
- 1958
- Sold to Zillah Shipping Co Ltd (W A Savage Ltd, managers) Liverpool, and renamed Fernfield.
- 1963
- Transferred to W A Savage Ltd.
- 1968
- Transferred to Coast Lines Ltd.
- 1970
- Registered under Coast Lines (Management) Ltd.
- 06.1971
- Registered under Coast Lines (Services) Ltd.
- 26.02.1971
- Coast Lines Ltd acquired by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 01.10.1971
- P&O Short Sea Shipping Ltd, appointed managers.
- 08.12.1971
- Sold to James Tyrrell Ltd, Irish Republic and renamed Shevrell.
- 1972
- Sold to Entreprise de Navigation de L’Isle Inc, Canada, and renamed Courdre de L’ile.
- 15.06.1988
- Collision with bulk carrier Algowest resulting in sinking off Pointe au Boivert, Quebec.