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BOTANY BAY (1969)
Service dates: 1982-1999
Official number: 337752
Shipping lines: OVERSEAS CONTAINERS LTD.; P&O CONTAINERS; P&O NEDLLOYD LTD.
Ship type:
Container Ship.
Career
- 14.01.1969
- Launched.
- 05.1969
- Delivered as Botany Bay for Furness Withy & Co Ltd (Container Fleets Ltd, managers).
- 18.06.1982
- Sold to Camperdown Shipping Ltd (Overseas Containers Ltd, managers).
- 04.1983
- Re-engined. Now fitted with 6-cylinder 2 SCSA B&W diesel engine, 19,495 bhp, 19.5 knots. Installed by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Tamano, Japan.
- 01.09.1983
- Re-delivered into service. Now 27,835 gt.
- 12.1984
- Re-measured. Deadweight now 28,952 tonnes.
- 28.05.1986
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company acquired full control of Overseas Containers Ltd.
- 23.12.1986
- Overseas Containers Ltd renamed P&O Containers Ltd.
- 01.02.1989
- Time chartered to Nedlloyd and renamed Nedlloyd Tasman.
- 18.03.1991
- Sold by P&O Containers Ltd to Natwest Specialist Finance Ltd and then leased back.
- 01.12.1991
- Cargo capacity now 1,578 teu (374 refrigerated).
- 10.01.1994
- Time charter to Nedlloyd ended and she reverted to Botany Bay.
- 31.12.1996
- P&O Containers Ltd renamed P&O Nedlloyd Ltd and reduced to P&O associate by establishment of P&O Nedlloyd Container Lines Ltd.
- 25.08.1998
- Ownership transferred from Natwest Specialist Finance to Nat West Leasing (GB) Ltd.
- 15.01.1999
- Sold for demolition at Panyu, China.