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CHESAPEAKE BAY (1985)
Service dates: 1987-2005
Official number: 689194
Shipping lines: P&O CONTAINERS; P&O NEDLLOYD LTD.
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 08.1985
- Launched
- 12.1985
- Completed as American Georgia for First American Bulk Carrier Corporation
- 1987
- Bareboat chartered to P&O Containers Ltd and renamed Chesapeake Bay
- 1990
- Renamed Tillie Lykes
- 31.12.1996
- P&O Containers Ltd renamed P&O Nedlloyd Ltd and reduced to P&O associate by establishment of P&O Nedlloyd Container Lines Ltd
- 1999
- Reverted back to her previous name Chesapeake Bay
- 2004
- Ship transferred to Royal P&O Nedlloyd (P&O interest 25%)
- 06.2005
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation company sold their 25% interest to A P Moller Maersk and therefore the vessel was no longer in Group service
- 2005
- Renamed Maersk Nebraska