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MORETON BAY (1969) #1
Service dates: 1969-1990
Official number: 337807
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; OVERSEAS CONTAINERS LTD.; P&O CONTAINERS
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 22.08.1968
- Launched.
- 13.06.1969
- Delivered as Moreton Bay for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (Container Fleets Ltd, managers) and operated by Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 08.01.1973
- Now 28,500 tonnes deadweight.
- 10.01.1980
- Ownership and operation transferred to Overseas Containers Ltd (a P&O associate). Now 26,876 gt, 29,262 tonnes deadweight.
- 12.08.1980
- Sent to be fitted with Bermeister & Wain diesel engine manufactured by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast and installed by Govan Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow; 18,400 bhp, speed 19 knots.
- 06.1981
- Management transferred to Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 02.09.1981
- Redelivered. Tonnages now 26,757 grt, deadweight 29,288 tonnes.
- 28.05.1986
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired full control of Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 01.01.1987
- Owners, managers and operators restyled P&O Containers Ltd.
- 17.06.1988
- Renamed Direct Kookaburra for charter to Australia New Zealand Direct Line.
- 16.11.1990
- Ownership transferred from P&O Containers Ltd to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and immediately sold to Overseas Equipment Company, Vanuatu.
- 12.08.1999
- Broken up at Alang, India.