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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)