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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)