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POOLTA (1959)
Service dates: 1959-1971
Official number: 196990
Shipping lines: UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 10.03.1959
- Launched.
- 05.1959
- Delivered as Poolta for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
- 1968
- The demand for the carriage of newsprint from the Boyer Mill was met by converting Poolta.
- 15.07.1968
- Arrived at Hong Kong for conversion and lengthening by Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co Ltd into a unit load and container carrier. She was fitted with stabilisers. Her dimensions now 100.19m (328.7ft) loa; 94.48m (310.0ft) b/p. Re-measured and now 2,880 grt, 1,412 nrt and 3,280 tons deadweight.
- 31.12.1971
- P&O sold their interest in the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand to Tasman Union Ltd, therefore the vessel was no longer in P&O Group service.
- 1976
- Sold to Bulkships Container Pty Ltd, Melbourne (Associated Steamships Pty Ltd, Melbourne, managers).
- 1981
- Sold to H K Unit Trust (Hetherington, Kingsbury Pty Ltd, Sydney, managers).
- 1984
- Transferred to Segment Holdings Ltd, Tonga (Warner Pacific Line, Tonga, managers) and renamed Kali.
- 1988
- Sold to Golden Arrow International Shipping Navigation & Transport Co, Sharjah, and renamed Ali.
- 1989
- Sold to Ocean Shipping Services Ltd, St Vincent (Tuscar Lloyds Inc, Dubai, managers) and renamed Mahan.
- 1990
- Sold to Sentry Shipping Corp, Dubai (Henderson Marine Consultants, Dubai, managers) and renamed Sublime.
- 1992
- Sold to Elahi Shipping Ltd, St Vincent (Nasser Ibrahimi Co, Dubai, managers) and renamed Blue Pearl.
- 27.10.1993/30.12.1994
- Under arrest at Bombay.
- 1995
- Renamed Ocean Success without a change of registry, owners, or managers.
- 02.06.1999
- Sold to Indian shipbreakers and demolished at Alang.