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Refrigerated/general cargo ship “Westmoreland” (place & date unknown)
Owner: Peninsular & Oriental S.N. Co., London
Manager: P&O General Cargo Division
Flag: British
Port of registry: London
Builder: Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow
Gross tons: 8,230
Deadweight: 11,858
Length overall: 160.81 m
Max. draft: 9.265 m
Engine: 8-cylinder diesel, 17,600 b.h.p., by Sulzer Bros., Winterthur
Service speed: 19.5 knots
Completed February 1966 as “Westmoreland” for Federal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd, London
Management transferred to P&O G.C.D. October 1971
Ownership transferred to P&O April 1973
Nominal ownership transferred to Strick Line Ltd. September 1978
Sold July 1980 to Oceanic Shipping SARL, Lebanon (managers Rachid Fares Enterprises of Australia Pty Ltd.) renamed “Fares Reefer”
Sold 1981 to Sold to Dunston Shipping Co. Ltd., Hong Kong (managers Blue Star Ship Management Ltd), renamed “Beacon Hill”
Sold March 1985 for demolition at Huangpu, P.R. China
Photo scanned from slide given to me by Mike Lee, a one-time fellow World Ship Society member who I believe has since passed away.
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