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LAIRDSFOX (1952)
Service dates: 1971-1977
Official number: 185508
Shipping lines: BURNS & LAIRD LINES; P&O SHORT SEA SHIPPING; BELFAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY LTD.; P&O FERRIES
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 13.10.1951
- Launched.
- 19.01.1952
- Delivered as Leemans for N V Scheepv-Onderneming Kustverkeer (W H James & Co Scheepv en Handel Maats N V, managers) The Netherlands.
- 11.1954
- Sold to Zillah Shipping Company Ltd (W A Savage Ltd, managers) Liverpool, and renamed Foxfield.
- 1963
- Ownership registered under W A Savage Ltd.
- 06.04.1966
- Sold to Burns & Laird Lines Ltd, Glasgow, and renamed Lairdsfox.
- 26.02.1971
- Burns & Laird Lines Ltd acquired by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 01.10.1971
- P&O Short Sea Shipping Ltd, appointed managers.
- 28.09.1973
- Transferred to Belfast Steamship Company Ltd, Belfast.
- 31.03.1975
- Owners restyled P&O Ferries.
- 15.11.1977
- Sold to J H Ramagee, Panama, and renamed Lilaida.
- 1978
- Registered under Naviera Lilaida S A, Panama.
- 27.08.1989
- Broken up at Cadiz, Spain.