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ESSO PURFLEET - IMO 6619138

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Photographer:
Malcolm Cranfield [ View profile ]
Captured:
Mar 14, 1974
Added:
Mar 14, 2024
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Image Resolution:
3,339 x 2,040

Description:

The 1967 Haverton Hill (Teesside) built coastal tanker ESSO PURFLEET arriving at Avonmouth exactly fifty years ago today, on 14th March 1974.

Later: 1983 PRIMA JEMIMA - 86 THITA PEGASUS - 87 RAINBOW - 87 DUBAI STAR - 91 EL MIURA - SICILY - 93 AFRICA

While on voyage from Eleusis to India for breaking, she was wrecked at Sarakiniko, Milos Island, on 17.12.03 and broke in two.

Vessel
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Current name:
AFRICA

Former name(s):

 -  El Miura (Until 1993)

 -  Sicily (Until 1993)

 -  Dubai Star (Until 1991 May)

 -  Thita Pegasus (Until 1987)

 -  Esso Purfleet (Until 1983)

 -  Sicily (Until 1967 Jan)

Vessel Type:
Oil Products Tanker
Gross tonnage:
2,538 tons
Summer DWT:
4,502 tons
Length:
99 m
Beam:
14.3 m
Draught:
5.9 m

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