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ORTOLAN (1964)
Service dates: 1964-1978
Official number: 305895
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION (TRADING) LTD; P&O FERRIES (GENERAL EUROPEAN)
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 31.10.1963
- Launched.
- 24.01.1964
- Delivered as Ortolan to the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 01.10.1971
- Management and operation transferred to P&O Short Sea Shipping Ltd. Deadweight now 459 tons, draught 3.244m (10.7ft).
- 01.12.1972
- Ownership transferred to General Steam Navigation (Trading) Ltd.
- 31.03.1975
- Management and operation transferred to P&O Ferries.
- 30.04.1976
- Ownership transferred to P&O Ferries (General European) Ltd.
- 24.05.1978
- Sold to Boston Offshore Maintenance Co Ltd, Boston, and renamed Judert.
- 1979
- Renamed Maral R.
- 26.08.1987
- Caught fire in her engineroom when 1.6km (1 mile) east of Longstone Lighthouse, Fame Islands, in position 55°39’N-01°35’W. At 1027hrs she was abandoned by her crew and stranded off Seaton Sluice, Northumberland in position 55°05’5”N-01°29’W.
- 04.09.1987
- Sold to C&J Marine, Newcastle, and broken up ‘in situ’.