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WESTMORLAND (1966)
Service dates: 1966-1980
Official number: 308035
Shipping lines: FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 09.09.1965
- Launched by Mrs H T Beazley.
- 07.02.1966
- Delivered as Westmorland for the Federal Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 21.02.1966
- Maiden voyage.
- 01.10.1971
- Management transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 19.04.1973
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 1977
- Last P&O vessel to call at Avonmouth, a conventional cargo service from New Zealand, then joined ‘Beaufort Gulf Services’ from New Zealand/Gulf, operated by LPR.
- 18.09.1978
- Registered under Strick Line Ltd.
- 15.02.1980
- Time chartered to Overseas Containers Ltd (OCL).
- 10.06.1980
- Sold to Oceanic Shipping SARL (Rachid Fares Enterprises of Australia Pty Ltd, managers) Lebanon, and renamed Fares Reefer.
- 1981
- Sold to Dunston Shipping Co Ltd (Blue Star Ship Management Ltd, managers) Hong Kong, and renamed Beacon Hill.
- 05.07.1984
- Laid up at Jebel Ali.
- 1985
- Sold to Chinese shipbreakers.
- 06.03.1985
- Arrived at Huangpu for demolition.