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ST. MAGNUS (1970)
Service dates: 1974-1991
Official number: 360886
Shipping lines: P&O SHORT SEA SHIPPING; P&O FERRIES; P&O SCOTTISH FERRIES; BELFAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Roll on/Roll off Cargo Ferry.
Career
- 14.03.1970
- Launched.
- 23.05.1970
- Delivered as Donautal for Partenreederei ms ‘Donautal’, West Germany (J A Reinecke, managers).
- 01.06.1974
- Purchased by Belfast Steamship Company Ltd (P&O Short Sea Shipping Ltd, managers) and renamed Ulster Sportsman.
- 31.03.1975
- P&O Ferries appointed managers.
- 10.1975
- Chartered to Truckline Ferries Ltd for the Poole/Cherbourg service.
- 12.01.1976
- Renamed Dorset.
- 01.1978
- Charter ended.
- 02.04.1978
- Registered at London.
- 12.05.1978
- Renamed St Magnus for Aberdeen/Orkney and Shetland service.
- 14.07.1978
- Ownership transferred to P&O Ferries Ltd.
- 05.1985
- Managers now POETS Fleet Management Ltd, operators were P&O Ferries Ltd.
- 01.01.1989
- Owners restyled P&O Scottish Ferries Ltd.
- 1991
- Sold to Scan-Pol Marine SA, Port Vila, Panama, and renamed Parseta.
- 1995
- Sold to Polish Baltic Shipping Co, Port Vila, Panama.
- 1997
- Sold to Consalidada de Ferrys CA, Pampatar, Venezuela, and renamed Dona Juana. Still reported in service.