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FORTUITY - IMO 5048435
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Photographer:Malcolm Cranfield [ View profile ]
Captured:Dec 31, 1972
Title:Fortuity
Location:Avonmouth, Bristol, United Kingdom
Photo Category:Tankers Built Before 1970
Added:Dec 31, 2022
Views:162
Image Resolution:4,727 x 2,950
Description:
The Greek owned tanker FORTUITY, photographed passing Portishead inbound for Avonmouth exactly fifty years ago today, on new year's eve 1972, had been built by Scotts’ Shipbuilding at Greenock in 1953 as BORDER REGIMENT
She was purchased in 1969 by Halkidon Shipping Corporation (Spyros Vlachakis - represented in London by Southern Shipping & Finance Company Limited) and renamed FORTUITY.
FORTUITY finally arrived at Masan, South Korea, on 20th February 1975 to be broken up
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Current name:FORTUITY
Vessel Type:Tanker
Gross tonnage:10,945 tons
Summer DWT:16,897 tons
Photos:6 photos by 2 photographers
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Owned by halkidon Shipping, indeed, owner of which was the late Nikolaos Apodiakos, who passed away last year at the age of 112 years. The company still goes strong and is ran by his successors.
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