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SOMALI (1948)
Service dates: 1948-1969
Official number: 182907
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O LINES
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 24.07.1946
- Keel laid.
- 22.04.1948
- Launched.
- 14.12.1948
- Ran trials.
- 15.12.1948
- Delivered as Somali to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was the third of six sisters, although four of the remainder had only single screws.
- 03.01.1949
- Maiden voyage
- 05.1960
- Management and operation transferred to P&O-Orient Management Ltd.
- 1966
- Managers and operators renamed P&O Lines Management Ltd.
- 1967
- Managers and operators renamed P&O Lines Ltd.
- 21.01.1967
- First ship to use the new Antwerp dry dock.
- 1968
- On reorganisation of the Far East service under the ‘Pando’ banner, she was transferred to British India Steam Navigation Company services, although still registered with and manned by P&O.
- 01.10.1969
- Sold to Happy Compania Naviera SA, Cyprus, and renamed Happy Land.
- 1972
- Sold to Nan Yung Steel and Iron Co Ltd, Taiwan for demolition.
- 07.09.1972
- Arrived at Kaohsiung.
- 12.11.1972
- Work commenced.
- 05.01.1973
- Demolition completed.