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P&O NEDLLOYD TOKYO (1972)
Service dates: 1982-1998
Official number: 357713
Shipping lines: OVERSEAS CONTAINERS LTD.; P&O CONTAINERS; P&O NEDLLOYD LTD.
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 20.09.1971
- Launched.
- 24.03.1972
- Completed as Tokyo Bay for Ocean Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool (Ocean Fleets Ltd, managers).
- 15.01.1973
- Owners renamed Ocean Transport & Trading Ltd.
- 05.1981
- Re-engined with diesel engines by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Kobe.
- 11.1982
- Management and operations transferred to Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 30.11.1984
- Sold to Chase Manhattan Ltd and leased to Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 09.1985
- Re-measured. Now 56,882 gt.
- 28.05.1986
- Acquired by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 28.11.1986
- Purchased by Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 01.01.1987
- Owners restyled P&O Containers Ltd.
- 18.03.1991
- Sold by P&O Containers Ltd to Howill Shipping Ltd and then hire-purchased back.
- 12.1991
- Capacity altered to 3,057 teu (95 refrigerated).
- 02.1995
- Refrigerated container capacity now 125 teu.
- 18.12.1995
- Acquired by P&O Containers Ltd from Howill Shipping Ltd.
- 18.04.1996
- Registry transferred to Hamilton, Bermuda. Call sign ZCBF4/Selcall 61106.
- 24.07.1996
- Chartered to Neptune Orient Line for East Coast USA/Sri Lanka/Malaysia/Singapore service and renamed N O L Steno.
- 31.12.1996
- P&O Containers Ltd renamed P&O Nedlloyd Ltd.
- 06.02.1998
- Returned to owner and renamed P&O Nedlloyd Tokyo.
- 22.08.1998
- Sold to Hong Kong interests to be broken up and renamed Jay Matadi.
- 09.10.1998
- Broken up at Alang, India.