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PANDO GULF (1957)
Service dates: 1957-1974
Official number: 187552
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION; P&O LINES
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 22.11.1956
- Launched by Ms K M Campbell, whose husband was later to become Chairman of the Company.
- 10.04.1957
- Delivered as Woodarra to the British India Steam Navigation Company.
- 22.08.1968
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, management and operation to P&O Lines Ltd. Renamed Pando Gulf
- 01.10.1971
- Management and operation transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 09.08.1974
- Sold to The Ben Line Steamers Ltd (Win Thomson & Co, managers) Leith, and renamed Benalbanach.
- 1978
- Sold to SsangYong Corporation, South Korea for demolition.
- 21.05.1978
- Arrived at Inchon.