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IBERIA (1954)
Service dates: 1954-1972
Official number: 186127
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O ORIENT LINE; P&O LINES
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 21.01.1954
- Launched by Lady McGrigor, wife of First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor.
- 10.09.1954
- Delivered as Iberia to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £6,930,000.
- 28.09.1954
- Maiden voyage London/Sydney.
- 27.03.1956
- Collided with the tanker Stanvac Pretoria in heavy seas off Colombo.
- 28.06.1972
- Sailed from Southampton for Taiwan after sale for scrap negotiated.
- 08.09.1972
- Delivered to Tung Cheng Steel Corporation for demolition.
- 17.10.1972
- Demolition commenced.