Built in 1959 by A/B Ekensbergs Varv. at Stockholm with a tonnage of 6227grt, a length of 485ft, a beam of 61ft 8in and a service speed of 15 knots. Laid down as the Fair Lady she was purchased by Harrisons (Clyde) Ltd on the stocks and renamed Vimeira with the ownership under Dornoch Shipping Co. and with J & J Denholm as managers. In 1960 she was chartered to Port Line and renamed Port Denison. At the end of the charter period in 1966 she reverted to Vimeira but was then sold to Axel Johnson & Co. H. A. B. of Stockholm who renamed her Star Altair. In 1978 she was acquired by the Laertis Shipping Corp. of Piraeus with A. Bacolitsas Cis. Nav. S. A. as managers and renamed Laertis. She then was sold to Contessa Shipping Co. of Piraeus in 1985 but in the following year, as the Tessa, was sent to Gadani Beach, Karachi where she was broken up.
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