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TEKOA (1966)
Service dates: 1966-1980
Official number: 309760
Shipping lines: NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; LAURITZEN-PENINSULAR REEFERS
Ship type:
Refrigerated Cargo Liner.
Career
- 08.03.1966
- Launched.
- 20.10.1966
- Delivered as Tekoa for the New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd at a cost of £2,004,000.
- 06.1969
- Ownership transferred to Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd (New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd, managers).
- 02.1970
- Dropped a propeller blade, bound Panama to Sydney.
- 06.02.1970
- Reached port on the remaining blades.
- 01.10.1971
- Management and operation transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 19.04.1973
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 18.09.1978
- Ownership transferred to Strick Line Ltd, London.
- 1979
- Laid up at Dubai.
- 05.12.1979
- Time chartered to Lauritzen Peninsular Reefers.
- 21.07.1980
- Sold to the Austasia Line (Pte) Ltd, Singapore, delivered on that day and renamed Mahsuri.
- 27.01.1984
- Arrived at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- 16.02.1984
- Demolition begun by Chin Tai Steel Enterprise Co Ltd.