Golar Nichu

VLCC; 107,408 grt; 215,780 dwt.
Operator: Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corporation, Hamilton, Bermuda. Flag: Liberia.
Built: 1970 by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Co Ltd, Sakaide, Japan. Yard no 1132. LR/IMO no 7042045.
Machinery: 2 x Kawasaki steam turbines of 30,000 shp (total). Speed: 16.5 knots.
1980-renamed HONAM RUBY for charter to Honam Tanker Co Ltd, Seoul, Korea.
1987-sold to Kappa Maritime Ltd, London, renamed STAR RAY (Cyprus flag).
1988-(December) to breakers in China after missile damage 12 nm north of Ras Al Motaf 8th July (Iran-Iraq war).
Photo: discharging at Shell's now long-gone Thameshaven oil refinery 10/8/1978.