PERUVIAN REEFER

Its name is (or was) PERUVIAN REEFER. This is the way Lauritzen (and fellow Danes DFDS) used to do it. It could be that she was in the process of being renamed to ORANGE REEFER when you took this shot.

Ship info from Miramar Ship Index:

IDNo: 7020578 Year: 1970
Name: PERSIAN REEFER Keel:
Type: Cargo ship (ref) Launch Date: 12.12.69
Flag: DNK Date of completion: 29.5.70
Tons: 6010 Link: 1004
DWT: 8800 Yard No: 182
Length overall: 145.5 Ship Design:
LPP: 133.0 Country of build: DNK
Beam: 21.1 Builder: Aalborg Vaerft
Material of build: Location of yard: Aalborg
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 1D-22.5
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 2001
Subsequent History:
81 PERUVIAN REEFER - 92 ORANGE REEFER

Disposal Data:
BU Alang 23.5.01

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IMO 7020578 , Dead.
Ship Type : Refrigerated Cargo Ship.
Build in 1970 by Aalborg Værft A/S Aalborg as " PERSIAN REEFER " for Rederi Ocean A/S J.Lauritzen Copenhagen Denmark.

Tonnage ; grt / nrt / tdw - 6.010 / 3.107 / 8.800.
Main Engine : B&W 8K74EF - 16.300 bhp.

1976 Company renamed A/S J.Lauritzen Copenhagen Denmark.
1981 Renamed " PERUVIAN REEFER ".
1984 Sold to Oleander Marine SA (Toei Marine Co Ltd Tokyo Japan as manager) Panama City Panama.(Timecharter back).
1988 Sold to J.Lauritzen A/S Copenhagen Denmark.
1989 Sold to S.K Reefer Ltd (Mermaid Marine Management Ltd London Unired Kingdom as manager) George Town Cayman Island.
1992 Sold to Billina Maritime Ltd (Ofer Bros.Holding Haifa Islael as manager) Monrovia Luberia,renamed " ORANGE REEFER ".
2001 BU Alang India.

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rd77. Thanks very much for this - I thought it might be the case but not convinced enough.

Garethed

Judging by the heavy oil "tide mark" around her I think this was shortly after she ran aground at full speed off Copenhagen. She ended up going to a yard in Scandinavia for repairs (cannot remember all the details) where I went out to supervise repositioning the engine, straightening the prop shaft and replacing about 3,000 ton of bottom steel. But then there is no JL on the funnel....

I think the photo was taken when she was in Layup on the River Fal, Cornwall.