ABADESA / STOLT ABADESA / STOLT TIGER / STOLT VIKING / VIKING / TRITON / NEW BRIGHTON / EMIR MAN

BUILT IN 1962 AT THE SWAN HUNTER YARD IN NEWCASTLE, AND LAUNCHED FOR THE FURNESS-HOULDER ARGENTINE LINE, WITH HOULDER BROTHERS AS MANAGERS.SHE WAS THE LAST SHIP BUILT FOR THE FURNESS-HOULDER ARGENTINE LINE. IN 1968 SHE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE ROYAL MAIL LINE, KEEPING THE SAME NAME. IN 1969 SHE WAS CHARTERED TO STOLT-NEILSON AND RE-NAMED STOLT ABADESA ( THERE WERE FOUR SHIPS INVOLVED IN THIS DEAL, TUDOR PRINCE, DENBY GRANGE, STUART PRINCE AND ABADESA ) THEN CAME A SUCCESSION OF OWNERS IN LIBERIA, GREECE AND PANAMA. IN 1986 SHE HAD AN EXPLOSION AND FIRE ON BOARD AND ARRIVED AS THE EMIR MAN AT DUBAI AND WAS SOLD AS SCRAP SHE ARRIVED AT GADANI BEACH THE FOLLOWING YEAR AND WAS SCRAPPED.