Dunedin 1980

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

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Name:	DUNEDIN
Type:	Container Ship
Launched:	15/02/1980
Completed:	07/1980
Builder:	Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd
Yard:	Naval Yard, High Walker
Yard Number:	107
Dimensions:	18140grt, 10080nrt, 16376dwt, 176.1 x 29.9 x 9.4(draft) metres;
	(1986: 23291gt, 23991dwt, 202.2 x 29.9 x 9.4(draft) metres)
Engines:	Oil engine, B&W type, 2SA, 6cyl (900 x 1800mm), 20500bhp
Engines by:	Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast
Propulsion:	1 x Screw, 19.0knots
Reg Number:	388500; (IMO: 7820461)
History:
07/1980	Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd (Furness, Withy & Co Ltd), London
1986	Hamburg-Sudamerikanische Dampfs Ges, Hamburg
1986	Renamed MONTE PASCOAL
1990	Egon Oldendorff (Liberia) Ltd, Monrovia; renamed COLUMBUS OLIVOS
1995	Renamed MONTE PASCOAL
1996	Renamed COLUMBUS OLIVOS
1997	Renamed ALIANCA HAMBURGO
1998	Illinois Shipping Co (MC Shipping Inc), Nassau
1998	Renamed COLUMBUS OLIVOS
2001	Partrederi 'MSC Jessica', Panama; renamed MSC JESSICA
29/05/2009	Broken up

Comments:	The last ship to be built at the Walker Naval Yard
	1986: Lengthened to 202.2metres by Flender Werft AG at Lubeck
	29/05/2009: Arrived at Alang for breaking up
	06/06/2009: Beached at Agarwal Shipbreaking Industries