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MELITA (1971)
Service dates: 1971-1979
Official number: 357382
Shipping lines: MOSS HUTCHISON LINE LTD.; P&O GENERAL CARGO DIVISION
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 07.07.1971
- Launched.
- 01.10.1971
- Management transferred to P&O General Cargo Division.
- 12.1971
- Delivered as Melita for Moss Hutchison Line Ltd.
- 28.08.1973
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 16.05.1978
- Laid up at Liverpool.
- 04.10.1979
- Sold to Naviera Multinacional del Caribes SA, Panama, and renamed Siboney.
- 1987
- Sold to Mexican shipbreakers.
- 14.06.1987
- Arrived at Tampico to be broken up.