The 1953 Kiel built AVRA, managed from New York by Tidal Marine International Corp. (Harry Amanatides & Ion Livas), passing Portishead outbound from Avonmouth for Swansea exactly fifty years ago today, on 26th April 1973. She had discharged at Avonmouth a cargo of animal feedstuffs loaded at Karachi. During the first stage of the voyage, to Durban for bunkers, she suffered a collision.

At Swansea, she was repaired in drydock and sold, sailing in June as GOLDEN QUEEN, but she was soon sold for scrap, arriving at Kaohsiung on 7 December 1973 for that purpose.

EX - BOW CANADA - 55 NOPAL EXPRESS - 57 LIEGE - 64 SUNMONT - 67 SUNNY LADY - 70 FIRST LADY - 72

Incidentally, on 12 March 1971, her sistership CLIPPER (ex SUNCLIPPER, delivered as BOW BRASIL) broke her moorings and drifted aground off Kiryat Haim, Haifa Bay, and was later sold for breaking at Yalova, Turkey.