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FLINDERS BAY (1969)
Service dates: 1969-1996
Official number: 337091
Shipping lines: OVERSEAS CONTAINERS LTD.; P&O CONTAINERS
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 19.07.1968
- Launched.
- 30.03.1969
- Delivered as Flinders Bay for Ocean Steam Ship Company (Containers Fleets Ltd, managers) and operated by Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 15.01.1973
- Owners renamed Ocean Transport & Trading Ltd.
- 02.01.1980
- Ownership transferred to Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 06.1981
- Management transferred to Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 28.05.1986
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd acquired full control of Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 23.12.1986
- Owners renamed P&O Containers Ltd.
- 27.05.1994
- Re-measured. Gross tonnage now 27,823 gt, net tonnage now 11,259 nt, deadweight 29,260 tonnes. Capacity 1,572 teu (344 refrigerated).
- 30.10.1996
- Sold to Indian shipbreakers and broken up at Alang.