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ABEL TASMAN (1957)
Service dates: 1957-1971
Official number: 196762
Shipping lines: HCS COASTERS LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 10.09.1957
- Launched by Mrs Strangward, wife of the Director and General Manager of H C S Coasters.
- 12.1957
- Delivered as Abel Tasman to H C S Coasters Pty Ltd. She was named after the Dutch 17th century explorer Tasman.
- 31.12.1971
- P&O sold there interest in the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (H C S Coasters Pty Ltd were their subsidiary company), therefore the vessel was no longer in P&O Group service.
- 1973
- Transferred to Abel Tasman Shipping Company Pty Ltd, Melbourne.
- 1975
- Sold to Guan Guan Shipping Ltd, Singapore, and renamed Golden Globe.
- 1982
- Sold to Safinatus Salem Shipping Ltd, Singapore, and renamed Sam Ju.
- 1985
- Sold to Azim Shipping Ltd, Singapore (Bayanihan Shipping Ltd, Singapore, managers) and renamed Azim 1.
- 1985
- Sold to Amora Holdings Inc, Panama (Hind Shipping Agencies, Bombay, managers) and renamed Alfalah.
- 1985
- Renamed Alsarah.
- 1985
- Renamed Alba III.
- 1985
- Arrested for alleged smuggling by the Bangladesh Navy in the outer anchorage of Chittagong.
- 1989
- Released and sold to Mariners Bangladesh Ltd for demolition at Begum Dockyards, Sadarghat. Subsequently beached.
- 1990
- Demolition commenced.