LAGENO (1973)

Service dates: 1973-1998

Official number: 359487

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; OVERSEAS CONTAINERS LTD.; P&O CONTAINERS; P&O NEDLLOYD LTD.

Ship type:

• Container Ship

Container Ship.

Career

09.12.1969

Ordered.

09.09.1972

Launched by Lady Crichton, wife of Sir Andrew Crichton, a director of P&O and Chairman of OCL.

11.03.1973

Delivered as Osaka Bay for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd (Ocean Fleets Ltd, managers). Last of five sisters delivered to partners in OCL for the Far East service (and the only one built for P&O), she cost £12 million.

10.1981

Fitted with Sulzer diesels by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd, Kure, Japan. 50,884 bhp/37,426 kW, 23 knots.

08.03.1983

Management transferred to Overseas Containers Ltd.

30.11.1984

Sold to Lloyds International Leasing Ltd and leased back to Overseas Containers Ltd.

c1986

Re-measured. Now 56,822 gross tons, 17,046 net, deadweight 47,442 tonnes.

28.05.1986

P&O acquired full control of Overseas Containers Ltd.

01.12.1986

Ownership reverted to Overseas Containers Ltd at and of lease.

23.12.1986

Owners restyled P&O Containers Ltd.

18.03.1991

Sold by P&O Containers Ltd to Howill Shipping Ltd and then hire-purchased back.

12.1991

Capacity now 3,057 teu (95 refrigerated).

02.1995

Refrigerated container capacity now 125 teu.

11.08.1995

Transferred to MEGA service (East Coast USA/Mediterranean/Gulf/ Bombay).

18.12.1995

Reacquired from Howill Shipping Ltd by P&O Containers Ltd.

01.04.1996

Registry transferred to Hamilton, Bermuda. Call sign ZCBF2.

13.06.1996

Chartered by Neptune Orient Line for East Coast USA/Sri Lanka/Malaysia/Singapore service. Renamed N O L Lageno.

31.12.1996

P&O Containers Ltd renamed P&O Nedlloyd Ltd and reduced to P&O associate by establishment of P&O Nedlloyd Container Lines Ltd.

26.02.1998

Renamed Lageno.

16.03.1998

Sold and delivered to Bangladeshi shipbreakers at Chittagong.

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