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SPANIEL (1955)

Service dates: 1917-1973

Official number: 187114

Shipping lines: COAST LINES SERVICES; P&O SHORT SEA SHIPPING; BELFAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Ship; Container Ship.


Career

21.06.1955
Launched.
10.1955
Delivered as Brentfield for Zillah Shipping Co Ltd (W A Savage Ltd, managers) Liverpool.
04.12.1958
Transferred to Coast Lines Ltd, Liverpool.
01.1959
Renamed Spaniel and converted to a container carrier.
01.01.1965
Transferred to Burns & Laird Lines Ltd, Glasgow.
09.09.1968
Transferred to Coast Lines Ltd, Liverpool.
1971
Registered under Coast Lines (Services) Ltd.
26.02.1971
Coast Lines Ltd acquired by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
01.10.1971
P&O Short Sea Shipping Ltd, appointed managers.
01.06.1972
Transferred to Belfast Steamship Company Ltd, Belfast.
29.10.1973
Sold to Isle of Man Steam Packet Co Ltd, Douglas, and renamed Conister.
1981
Sold to Asturamerican Shipping Co Inc, Panama, and resold to Desguaces y Salvamentos SA, Spain for demolition.
29.09.1981
Arrived at Aviles and subsequently broken up at San Juan de Nieva.


Ship technical details (PDF)