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Barry Docks, negative
M.V. GEEST TIDE and M.V. GEEST HAVEN at their berths at the 'Windward Terminal', Barry Docks.
Built 1971 by Scotts Greenock, with 6-cylinder Sulzer diesel engine by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (1969) Ltd., Greenock, for Geest Industries, Boston. 1981 – Sold to Latvian Shipping Co., Riga, and renamed KULDIGA. She was broken up by Hasam Enterprises at Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 1993. (ShipsList - Geest)(clydesite.co.uk)
M.V. GEESTHAVEN (8042GT). Built 1966 by Greenock Dockyard Company, Greenock (but recorded in Lloyds as being built by Scott's Shipbuilding Co. due to a takeover along with sister ship GEESTCAPE). Owned by Geest Industries Ltd. 1975 – Sold to the Government of Qatar, converted to a livestock carrier, and renamed DOHA. She was broken up at Pakistan in 1986.