Passenger/cargo ship “Mercury Lake” at Khorramshahr, 30th April 1978
Owner: Mercury Shipping Co., Singapore
Flag: Liberia
Builder: N.V. Mch. & Schps. P. Smit Jr., Rotterdam
Gross tons: 9,113
Deadweight: 9,435
Length overall: 143.8 m
Max. draft: 8.783 m
Engine: 9-cylinder B&W diesel, 7,500 b.h.p., by builders
Service speed: 17 knots
Completed May 1952 as “Straat Banka” for Koninklijke Java-China Paketvaart Lijnen (Royal Interocean Lines), Netherlands
Ownership transferred 1971 to Mercury Shg. (a subsidiary of RIL)
Sold September 1978 for scrapping at Shanghai