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DISCOVERY BAY (1969) #2
Service dates: 1991-1998
Official number: 337847
Shipping lines: P&O CONTAINERS; P&O NEDLLOYD LTD.
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 03.12.1968
- Launched.
- 30.06.1969
- Delivered as Discovery Bay for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 1973
- Deadweight now 28,800 tons.
- 09.1974
- Rescued the crew of 10 of the Danish ship Gudrun Kansas who were forced to abandon ship in heavy weather in the Bay of Biscay after her timber cargo shifted.
- 08.1978
- The (then) largest container ship to call at an Arabian port in the Gulf, on the P&O Strath/Ellerman/United Arab Shipping Co joint venture Arabian Peninsular Container Line.
- 10.01.1980
- Ownership and management transferred to Overseas Containers Ltd. Deadweight now 29,262 tonnes.
- 28.05.1980
- Sent to be re-engined by Govan Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow with Burmeister & Wain diesel engine manufactured by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast.
- 10.07.1981
- Redelivered. Speed 18 knots, 18,400 bhp. Tonnages now 26,757 grt, 29,288 tonnes deadweight.
- 21.11.1985
- Re-measured 27,823 gt, 11,259 nt.
- 28.05.1986
- P&O acquired full control of Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 01.01.1987
- Owners restyled P&O Containers Ltd.
- 1988
- Renamed Direct Kea for charter to Australia New Zealand Direct Line and employment on Australia and New Zealand/US West Coast service.
- 16.11.1990
- Transferred from P&O Containers Ltd to P&O Steam Navigation Company and immediately sold to Overseas Equipment Company Ltd, Vanuatu.
- 13.08.1999
- Broken up at Alang, India.