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KYPROS (1950)
Service dates: 1950-1976
Official number: 183765
Shipping lines: MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 20.12.1949
- Launched by Mrs P R Privett.
- 12.04.1950
- Ran trials and delivered as Kypros for Moss Hutchison Line Ltd.
- 1954
- Chartered to Booker Bros for a roundtrip voyage from Liverpool to Demerara.
- 28.07.1967
- Chartered to Cunard Steam-Ship Co Ltd, Liverpool for two return voyages to the Canadian Great Lakes. She was renamed Aurania.
- 12.12.1967
- Renamed Kypros upon termination of the charter.
- 01.10.1971
- P&O General Cargo Division appointed managers.
- 18.04.1976
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 25.08.1976
- Sold to Keanav Shipping Company SA, Monrovia (Grecomar Shipping Agency Ltd, Piraeus, managers) and renamed Angeliki.
- 1981
- Sold to Angel Shipping Co Ltd, Malta, and renamed Angel.
- 30.04.1982
- Reported sold to Metal Scrap Trade Corp Ltd, India, for demolition at Calcutta.