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UDANG NATUNA (1964)

Service dates: 1964-1990

Official number: 306221

Shipping lines: TRIDENT TANKERS LTD.; P&O BULK SHIPPING DIVISION; P&O BULK SHIPPING LTD.; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Tanker.


Career

10.06.1964
Launched.
22.12.1964
Delivered as Ottawa for Trident Tankers Ltd. Her original name is that of the capital city of Canada, and had been carried by an earlier ship purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in 1856.
16.08.1971
Management and operation transferred to P&O Bulk Shipping Division.
27.09.1972
Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
21.10.1972
Re-measured. Now 51,756 grt, 93,231 tons deadweight.
08.10.1974
Arrived at Gibraltar to be laid up. As a steamship she was proving expensive to operate.
1977
P&O Bulk Shipping Division restyled P&O Bulk Shipping Ltd.
17.02.1978
Left Gibraltar after lay-up.
22.03.1978
Arrived at IHI Jurong shipyard, Singapore to be refitted for service as an oil storage vessel.
14.09.1978
Ownership transferred to Sea Transport Services Ltd. Renamed Udang Natuna and bareboat chartered to Conoco Inc. Registry transferred to Monrovia, Liberia (Official Number 6356, Call Sign D5IZ).
08.11.1978
Sailed from Singapore for the Udang oilfield off north-west Kalimantan, Indonesia, where she was to be based.
17.12.1990
Sold to Kwality Steel Suppliers (Shipbreaking Yard), Alang, India, to be broken up.


Ship technical details (PDF)