10,402 grt; 12,436 dwt; part-refrigerated; 6 passengers.
Operator: Rederi A/B Nordstjernan/Axel Axelson Johnson (Johnson Line), Stockholm, Sweden.
Built: 1958 by Lindholmens Varv A/B, Gothenburg, Sweden. Yard no 1054.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 4 x Vee-12-cylinder Lindholmens-Pielstick 12PC1-V400 medium-speed, four-stroke diesels of 12,000 bhp (total). Speed: 18.5 knots.
1981-sold to Steep Rock Shipping Corp, Monrovia (A Bacolitsas, Piraeus, Greece), renamed ROCK (Panama flag).
1982-laid-up Astakos, Greece.
1988-sold/renamed RUSH for voyage to breakers at Alang, India, arrived 5/2.
Photo: late 1968 outward bound from Tilbury Dock, passing Gravesend and the long-demolished, smoky, Tilbury ‘A’ Power Station. Steam tug CONTEST is in the foreground (and getting in my way).