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Geest banana ships mv GEEST HAVEN and mv GEEST TIDE dressed overall. The ships were there for the inauguration of the "Windward Terminal" - the new Geest Industries' Warehouse which replaced the one destroyed by the fire in June 1970
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.
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)