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WILD FULMAR (1974)
Service dates: 1974-1983
Official number: 363183
Shipping lines: FEDERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION; LAURITZEN-PENINSULAR REEFERS; P&O DEEP SEA CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 08.12.1970
- Ordered.
- 27.11.1973
- Launched by Mrs Pat Folley, wife of Mr R F Folley, Development Manager of P&O General Cargo Division.
- 07.03.1974
- Delivered as Wild Fulmar for Federal Steam Navigation Company Ltd (P&O General Cargo Division, managers). She was a sister to the earlier Wild Flamingo.
- 08.1974
- It was proposed to charter her for storage of surplus Irish beef in Bantry Bay, but another Lauritzen-Peninsular Reefer ship was used instead.
- 03.1981
- Management transferred to P&O Deep Sea Cargo Division.
- 03.05.1983
- Sold to Sembawang Reefer Lines (Duku) Pte Ltd, Singapore (Sembawang Johnson Shipmanagement (Pte) Ltd, managers) and renamed Reefer Duku.
- 1987
- Transferred to Sembawang Reefer Lines (Duku) Bahamas Ltd, Nassau.
- 01.1988
- Sold to Manifest Shipping Co Ltd, Limassol (Kappa Maritime, managers) and rename Starsea.
- 29.05.1990
- Suffered an engineroom explosion and fire. Abandoned by crew 58km (35 miles) north-west of Punta Mala, Panama, en route Corinto/Zeebrugge.
- 01.06.1990
- Arrived at Balboa in tow and laid up.
- 1990
- Sold to Paul Cheng & Sons Investments Ltd, Hong Kong (Trans Globe Marine Ltd, managers) and registered at Kingstown, St Vincent as Midway.
- 28.07.1991
- Left Balboa in tow of tug Atlantic Rescuer for Alang, India via Nauru and Kavieng.
- 22.02.1992
- Arrived at Alang.
- 13.03.1992
- Demolition begun by Escoofbhai Khanbai.