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COROMANDEL (1949)
Service dates: 1949-1969
Official number: 183118
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O ORIENT LINE; P&O LINES
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 20.12.1948
- Launched.
- 18.10.1949
- Ran trials.
- 20.10.1949
- Delivered as Coromandel to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was the second of two sisters; Cannanore was completed three months earlier.
- 1960
- Carried 187 buffalo as deck cargo on a voyage from Bangkok to Hong Kong. All survived except one that jumped overboard and drowned shortly before docking.
- 05.1960
- Management and operation transferred to P&O-Orient Lines.
- 1966
- Managers and operators restyled P&O Lines.
- 19.11.1969
- Sold to Jebshun Shipping Co Ltd, Hong Kong and renamed Shun Hing though London registry was retained.
- 1971
- Registered at Singapore.
- 16.12.1971
- Laid up at Manila.
- 26.06.1972
- Driven ashore by typhoon Konsing.
- 08.07.1972
- Refloated.
- 1973
- Sold to Tsai Sei Co Ltd, Somali Republic and renamed Hop Sing.
- 1973
- Sold to Keun Man Steel and Iron Works, Taiwan, for demolition.
- 14.04.1973
- Work commenced at Kaohsiung.