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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.