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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)