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FOYLE (1961)
Service dates: 1961-1971
Official number: 302561
Shipping lines: CHARTER SHIPPING COMPANY; JAMES NOURSE LTD.; TRIDENT TANKERS LTD.
Ship type:
Tanker.
Career
- 10.10.1960
- Launched.
- 02.02.1961
- Completed as Foyle for Charter Shipping Company Ltd. The Foyle is a river of Eire and Northern Ireland, expanding into the lough of the same name at Londonderry; the name had been previously used by James Nourse in 1874.
- 1964
- Management and operation transferred to Trident Tankers Ltd.
- 1965
- Renamed Megna after a river in East Pakistan (later Bangladesh).
- 30.09.1968
- Ownership transferred to Trident Tankers Ltd.
- 1971
- Sold to Simfonia Compania Naviera, Piraeus, Greece (Angalef Shipping Co (London) Ltd, managers) and renamed Simfonia.
- 14.04.1975
- Laid up at Piraeus for 3 years.
- 12.06.1978
- Sold to Isaac Manuel Vanella Davalillo to be broken up at Castellon.
- 09.1978
- Demolition began.