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ANTRIM (1962)
Service dates: 1962-1977
Official number: 302971
Shipping lines: AVENUE SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 19.01.1962
- Launched by Mrs G Fairlem, wife of a long-serving Trinder Anderson manager.
- 04.1962
- Delivered as Antrim to Avenue Shipping Company Ltd.
- 01.10.1971
- Management and operation transferred to P&O General Cargo Division. Re-measured. Now 6,305 grt, 3,530 nrt, 10,267 dwt.
- 29.03.1972
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 02.05.1975
- Renamed Strathinch.
- 02.1981
- Sold to Compania Naviera Keelung SA, Panama.
- 17.11.1977
- Sold to Navigation & Coal Trade Ltd, London for $1.1 million and immediately resold to The Highwater Navigation Co Ltd, Bangladesh (Nerva Maritime Inc, managers), and renamed Islami Taaj.
- 07.1979
- Grounded when bound Chalna to Karachi.
- 1980
- Sold to Jaguar Shipping Corporation Ltd (Sam U Shipping Co Ltd, managers) Panama, and renamed Singapore 2.
- 17.07.1982
- Stranded on the west coast of Korea during a voyage from Ho Chi Minh City.
- 22.07.1982
- Arrived at Inchon in tow of tug Kayo Maru. After discharging her cargo, she was sold to Hansung Salvage Co Ltd.
- 05.08.1982
- Delivered at Inchon for demolition by Han Sung Salvage Co Ltd.