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STRATHMORE (1971)
Service dates: 1971-1982
Official number: 342782
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 22.05.1969
- Ordered.
- 30.11.1970
- Launched by Mrs A Y Thomson, wife of a British India Director.
- 23.07.1971
- Delivered as Morvada for the British India Steam Navigation Company. Fitted with 100-ton Stulcken derrick. For her maiden voyage, she shipped 53 lorries to Bengal for relief operations.
- 01.10.1971
- Management transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 1972/1973
- Operated on UK/Gulf, UK/East Africa and Gulf/Japan sailings.
- 19.04.1973
- Registered in the ownership of The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 18.06.1975
- Renamed Strathmore.
- 11.02.1982
- Sold to United Thai Shipping Corporation Ltd, Thailand, and renamed Intanin.
- 1986
- Sold to Taiwan shipbreakers.
- 13.07.1986
- Arrived at Kaohsiung.
- 01.08.1986
- Demolition commenced by San To Steel Co Ltd.
- 12.08.1986
- Demolition completed.