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KENT (1960)
Service dates: 1960-1968
Official number: 302543
Shipping lines: FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Tanker.
Career
- 20.09.1960
- Launched.
- 15.12.1960
- Delivered as Kent to the Federal Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £4 million. Kent is a county of south-east England.
- 28.01.1966
- Management and operation transferred to Federal Tankers Ltd, London.
- 10.1968
- Sold to Commercial Tankers Inc, Monrovia (Cosmopolitan Shipping Inc, managers) and renamed Leslie Conway.
- 02.1971
- Sold to Oswego Merchant Corporation, Monrovia (Marine Transport Lines Inc, managers) and renamed Oswego Merchant.
- 15.07.1974
- Collided with the motor tanker Great Loyalty in Singapore Straits, bound Inchon to Bahrain in ballast. Great Loyalty caught fire and ran aground.
- 23.01.1976
- Arrived at Kaohsiung, Taiwan to be broken up.
- 30.01.1976
- Delivered to Chou’s Iron & Steel Company Ltd.
- 06.06.1976
- Demolition commenced.