Ex - KELSO
Flag - Belize
Built - 1971, Japan as a Fisheries Research Vessel.
LOA - 78.66mtrs
Length (Registered) - 71.60
Length (P.P.) - 68.00
Breadth (MLD) - 11.00
Draft (MLD) - 5.47
Keel Laid - 6 November 1970
Launched - 30 November 1970
She took just 24 days to build..amazing!!!
Delivered - 28 February 1971
Official No. - 109809
Ex Callsign - JDTV
NRT - 482
GRT - 1,607
4 x NIIGATA main engines.
Propellor - 4 bladed Controllable Pitch
Speed on Trials - 19.178 knots
Propulsion - 4 engines/single screw.

Purchased by a company named Ovenstone in Cape Town and pressed into service as a crayfishing vessel around Tristan Da Cunha & Nightengale Island but also doubling up as a passenger vessel licenced to carry 12 passengers between the remotest inhabited Island in the world and Cape Town for 13 years.

Seen here at St. Helena Island on the 17 August 2009.

See US Coast Guard news http://coastguardnews.com/ April 1st 2010 for the near loss of this ship of Puerto Rico.
Special thanks to D Legakis Photography
Athena Picture Agency for alerting me to this near disaster.

Well done to the US Coast Guard in particular the crew of the rapid response cutter CHINCOTEAGUE for dewatering the ship and everyone involved in the UK and in the Carribean for a rapid response.