WESTBURY

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WESTBURY

Postby teesships » Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:31 am

WESTBURY (5388017): 8533gt; 11.5.1960 launched by Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Burntisland, yard no. 401, for Alexander Shipping Co. Ltd., (managers: Houlder Brothers and Co. Ltd.); 11.1960 completed; 1978 sold and renamed DIAMONDO (Greek); 1980 sold and renamed POLANA (Greek); 24.5.1983 arrived at Gadani Beach, Pakistan, to be broken up.

WESTBURY in Middlesbrough Dock on 28 February 1978
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Re: WESTBURY

Postby northeast » Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:36 am

I am fairly sure it was this one, as POLANA, that loaded at the Container Terminal at Hull around 1980/1981, not the easiest of jobs! Probably a charter to MSC who were then in their young days.
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