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S G C CAPITAL (1996)
Service dates: 1998-2003
Official number: 361861
Shipping lines: ASSOCIATED BULK CARRIERS
Ship type:
Bulk Carrier.
Career
- 16.03.1964
- Keel laid.
- 30.10.1964
- Launched.
- 12.03.1965
- Delivered as Peter Pan for Partenreederei ms Peter Pan (Travemunde-Trelleborg Linie GmbH, managers).
- 10.10.1973
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O Short Sea Shipping, managers) and renamed S F Panther.
- 17.11.1973
- Acted as a relief ship on Normandy Ferries’ Southampton/Le Havre route.
- 04.12.1973
- Ownership transferred to Southern Ferries Ltd.
- 22.12.1973
- Entered service on Southern Ferries’ Southampton/San Sebastian service. She did two return crossings Southampton/Pasajes and two Southampton/Le Havre each week.
- 02.1975
- Completed 5-week refit at Chantiers de Normandie, Le Havre. Fitted with Vosper-Thornycroft fin stabilisers. Engines converted to burn heavy fuel oil.
- 31.03.1975
- Management transferred to P&O Ferries Ltd.
- 14.11.1975
- Re-measured. Now 4,468 grt, 1,923 nrt, 1,005 tons deadweight.
- 15.11.1975
- Southampton/Pasajes route closed.
- 06.12.1975
- Renamed Terje Vigen for charter to Oslo-Aarhus Linie.
- 1977
- Refitted at North East Coast Ship Repairers, South Shields.
- 30.03.1977
- Renamed St Clair for operation by P&O Ferries Orkney & Shetland Services. Capacity now 600 passengers.
- 04.04.1977
- Inaugurated Aberdeen/Lerwick roll-on/roll-off service on bareboat charter to Norwegian Shipping and Offshore Services. (The official opening was 10 days later).
- 30.10.1978
- Ownership transferred to P&O Ferries Ltd.
- 09.05.1983
- Chartered for a trip to Gothenburg carrying football spectators.
- 1984
- £2 million refit at Humber Graving Dock & Engineering, Immingham including substantial mechanical work and 23 new 2 or 4-berth cabins and refurbishment of existing facilities.
- 05.1985
- Management transferred to POETS Fleet Management Ltd.
- 04.09.1987
- Mini-cruise Aberdeen/Southampton/Esbjerg.
- 01.01.1989
- Owners P&O Ferries Ltd renamed P&O Scottish Ferries Ltd.
- 03.10.1991
- Two women passengers – one elderly, the other pregnant – taken off separately by helicopter during a very routine cruising.
- 17.02.1992
- Renamed St Clair II to allow un-numbered name to be used for a newer ship.
- 30.06.1992
- Sold to Perbadanan Nasional Shipping Line Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and renamed Nusa Pejuang.
- 12.1997
- Sold to Indian shipbreakers.
- 09.01.1998
- Arrived at Mumbai, India for demolition.
- 11.11.1998
- Demolition commenced.