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EMPIRE BYNG (1945)
Service dates: 1945-1946
Official number: 169521
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 16.11.1944
- Launched.
- 05.1945
- Completed as Empire Byng for the Ministry of War Transport (The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, managers).
- 30.05.1945/12.12.1946
- Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
- 19.07.1945/11.09.1946
- Served as a Mechanical Transport Ship.
- 12.12.1946
- Management transferred to Dalhousie Steam & Motor Ship Co Ltd, London.
- 1951
- Sold to Dalhousie Steam & Motor Ship Company Ltd and renamed Peter Dal II.
- 1954
- Sold to Novocastria Shipping Co Ltd (Nomikos (London) Ltd, managers).
- 11.1955
- Sold to Ben Line Ltd, Leith, and renamed Benwyvis.
- 06.1963
- Sold to Bacong Shipping Co SA, Panama, and renamed Southern Comet.
- 1968
- Sold to People’s Bank & Trust Co, Panama, and renamed Marites.
- 11.1970
- Ran aground at Manila Bay during Typhoon Patsy.
- 08.02.1972
- Arrived at Hong Kong for demolition by Ming Hing & Co.