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GAMBHIRA (1969)
Service dates: 1973-1986
Official number: 358924
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; P&O BULK SHIPPING DIVISION; P&O DEEP SEA CARGO DIVISION; P&O BULK SHIPPING LTD.; P&O GAS CARRIER LTD.
Ship type:
Liquified Petroleum Gas Carrier.
Career
- 30.03.1968
- Launched.
- 04.1969
- Delivered as Butanueve for Butano SA, Spain.
- 1971
- Sold to Arcadia Reederei GmbH & Co Tankschiff KG, Liberia and renamed Butanaval.
- 20.02.1973
- Acquired by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd (P&O Bulk Shipping Division, managers) and renamed Gambhira after a place in Baroda district, Gujarat State, India.
- 28.03.1973
- Ownership transferred to Orient Steam Navigation Co Ltd.
- 06.04.1973
- Renaming ceremony by Mrs P R Mitchell, wife of the manager, Gas Carrier and VLCC Fleet, P&O Bulk Shipping Division.
- 01.1976
- Deadweight amended to 11,470 tonnes (11,288 tons).
- 23.07.1980
- Sold to Habkarn Ltd, London and bareboat chartered back to P&O Bulk Shipping Division.
- 03.1981
- Managers and operators restyled P&O Deep Sea Cargo Division.
- 29.09.1981
- Sold to Lombard North Central Leasing Ltd, London. Charter continued.
- 1983
- Management transferred to P&O Bulk Shipping Ltd.
- 03.05.1985
- Charter terminated. Purchased jointly by Gambhira (UK) Ltd (a P&O company) and Gambhira Gas Carriers Ltd (Overseas Shipholding Group, Bermuda). Operated by P&O Gas Carriers Ltd (owned 50:50 by P&O and OSG). Managed by P&O Ship Management Ltd. Her officers threatened to stop work over new manning arrangements.
- 03.10.1986
- Sold to Bostock Co Ltd, Hamilton, Bermuda (A/S Havtor Management, Oslo, managers).
- 05.01.1987
- Renamed Havpil.
- 1987
- Transferred to Havpil Shipping (Pte) Ltd, Singapore (A/S Havtor Management, Oslo, managers).
- 1991
- Owners Simba Chartering SRL, Acqui Terme, Italy (Montership Managers, Genoa, managers) and renamed Lulligas.
- 1994
- Owners Afro Ltd, Valetta. Managers Compagnia di Navigazione Gas Line SRL, Genoa. Renamed Kapitan Luca.
- 20.01.1996
- Hull damaged by intake of water off Bangkok, Thailand. Declared a constructive total loss.
- 1996
- Broken up locally.