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YORKSHIRE COAST (1959)
Service dates: 1971-1972
Official number: 186896
Shipping lines: TYNE TEES; P&O SHORT SEA SHIPPING
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 18.06.1959
- Launched.
- 08.10.1959
- Delivered as Yorkshire Coast for Coast Line Ltd.
- 26.02.1971
- Coast Lines Ltd acquired by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 01.10.1971
- Management transferred to P&O Short Sea Shipping Ltd.
- 14.04.1972
- Sold to J & A Gardner & Co Ltd, Glasgow and renamed Saint Enoch.
- 1976
- Sold to Galwave Navigation Ltd (Stewart Chartering Ltd, managers) Cyprus and renamed Galwave.
- 1980
- Sold to Ugarit Navigation Co Ltd, Cyprus and renamed Saer.
- 13.03.1986
- Involved in a collision with Omar B off Cyprus and sank in position 34°13’N-34°16’E. She was on a voyage from Beirut to Limassol with empty containers. The crew were rescued by Omar B.