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Name OLANCHO (EX- CHIRRIPO )
Last Name: MARDINA EXPORTER (1972)
Built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Glasgow,
Yard No 658
Engines by shipbuilder
Propulsion: 2 Steam turbines dr geared to sc shaft, 9000shp, 18 knots.
Launched: Monday, 26/08/1957
Built: 1957
Ship Type: Passenger Cargo Vessel
Tonnage: 4802 grt | 3094 nrt | 5655 dwt
Length: 411 feet 3
Breadth: 56 feet 7
Draught: 25 feet 1
Owner History:
1957-69 Elders & Fyffes Ltd, Glasgow
1969-72 Empresa Hondurena De Vap S.A, Honduras
1972-74 Newport Shipping Co, Greece.
Status: Arrived for Scrapping - 6/6/1974 Kaohsiung
A view of the fore deck of the old reefer "Olancho". Note the battens and canvas tarp over #1 hatch and the wooden decks. All a thing of the past now! I worked on this ship and her sister "Omoa" back in 1972, they were quite small as I recall.
From a scanned slide taken at sea 1972.
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