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Name: MORVADA
Type: Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched: 30/11/1970
Completed: 23/07/1971
Builder: Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd
Yard: Neptune
Yard Number: 23
Dimensions: 11143grt, 5947nrt, 13375dwt, 144.79 x 23.17 x 12.96metres
Engines: Oil engine, 2SA, Sulzer 6RND90, 6cyl (900 x 1550), 17400bhp
Engines by: Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 19.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 342782; IMO 7038587
History:
23/07/1971 British India Navigation Co Ltd
1973 Absorbed into the P & O Group
1975 Renamed STRATHMORE
1982 United Thai Shipping Corp Ltd, Bankok; renamed INTANIN
13/07/1986 Broken up
Comments: 13/07/1986: Broken up by San To Steel Co at Kaohsiung, Taiwan


Above photo as MORVADA copyright of Peter Crichton

Above photo as MORVADA copyright of Jorgen Lonn

Above photo as MORVADA courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as MORVADA copyright of Airphoto

Above photo as STRATHMORE copyright of Chris Howell

Above photo as INTANIN copyright of Peter Wearing