23,588 grt; 30,481 dwt.
Owner: AB Kalteg + Co KB. Managers: Axel Ax:son Johnson (Johnson Line), Stockholm, Sweden.
Built: 1971 by Oy Wärtsilä Ab, Turku, Finland. Yard no. 1193. LR/IMO no 7039373.
Propulsion: two, vee 16-cylinder, four-stroke Wärtsilä-Pielstick 16PC2-V400 of 16,000 bhp (total), geared to single screw shaft. Speed: 16.5 knots.
1979-sold to Benenden Shipping Ltd, renamed PACIFIC LUMBERMAN (Liberian flag).
1981-sold for lease to Seaboard Shipping Co, Ltd, Vancouver, Canada and managed by Jardine Matheson’s Indo-China Steam Navigation Co (Hong Kong) Ltd, renamed MALAHAT (Hong Kong/British flag).
1987-sold/renamed MALAHAT SAGA for voyage to breakers at Kaohsiung. Arrived 29/12 but was resold to Comtramar Cia Nav Ltda, Lisbon and renamed MARIA C (Cyprus flag)
1991-sold to Seapearl Shipping Co, Limassol, renamed SEAPEARL (Cyprus flag).
2005-to breakers at Xinhui, China 14/6.
Photo: Northfleet, River Thames 30/4/1978, with a full load of packaged timber for Tilbury Dock.
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