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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)