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N O L RISSO (1972)
Service dates: 1983-1998
Official number: 357741
Shipping lines: OVERSEAS CONTAINERS LTD.; P&O CONTAINERS; P&O NEDLLOYD LTD.
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 05.12.1971
- Launched.
- 08.05.1972
- Completed as Liverpool Bay for Ocean Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool (Ocean Fleets Ltd, managers).
- 15.01.1973
- Owners restyled Ocean Transport and Trading Ltd.
- 09.1981
- Fitted with Sulzer diesels by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Kobe.
- 01.1983
- Management transferred to Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 30.11.1984
- Sold to Chase Manhattan Ltd and leased to Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 09.1985
- Re-measured. Now 56,822 gt.
- 28.05.1986
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired full control of Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 19.08.1986
- Purchased by Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 01.01.1987
- Owners restyled P&O Containers Ltd.
- 10.1988
- Refrigerated container capacity now 145 teu.
- 01.06.1989
- Refrigerated container capacity now 175 teu.
- 18.03.1991
- Sold by P&O Containers Ltd to Natwest Specialist Finance Ltd and then leased back.
- 12.1991
- Capacity now 3,055 teu (175 refrigerated).
- 28.02.1996
- Registry transferred to Hamilton, Bermuda; call sign now ZCBE6. Capacity reduced to 3,051 teu (175 refrigerated).
- 23.06.1996
- Chartered to Neptune Orient Line for East Coast USA/Sri Lanka/Malaysia/Singapore service and renamed N O L Risso.
- 31.12.1996
- P&O Containers Ltd renamed P&O Nedlloyd Ltd (P&O interest 50%).
- 04.03.1998
- Neptune Orient Line charter ended. Ship returned to her owner and renamed P&O Nedlloyd Liverpool.
- 25.08.1998
- Ownership transferred from Natwest Specialist Finance to Nat West Leasing (GB) Ltd.
- 15.10.1998
- Sold to Chinese interests to be broken up at Xiaohu.