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BLANIK - IMO 6806860
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Photographer:friendship [ View profile ]
Title:Blanik
Photo Category:General Cargo Ships Built 1960-1969 (over 3000gt)
Added:Aug 21, 2008
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Image Resolution:850 x 567
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The Czechoslovakian motorship BLANIK berthed in the port of Rostock. Orig. launch. 15-04-1967 as GLIWICE II (I) for Polska Zegluga Morska, Szczecin, deliv. as BLANIK for CSSR-Owners: 28-12-1967.Type B 455 /10. Builder Stocznia Szczecinska im. Adolfo Warskiego, Szczecin / Poland. New motorship GLIWICE II (II),the second one, ordered in 1968 as Bulkcarrier in Nakskov/Denmark!
Foto: © -07-1970 Wolfgang Kramer
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Current name:ROSHNI
Former name(s):
- Blanik (Until 1990 Mar)
- Gliwice Ii (Until 1967 Dec)
Vessel Type:General Cargo
Gross tonnage:5,241 tons
Summer DWT:6,005 tons
Photos:4 photos by 2 photographers
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Six two-berth cabins for passengers, regularly used for passenger travel to Cuba until 1976. Then the cabins were used by crews and their family members.
Built in 1967 in Szczecin/PL (type B455, #10, launched Apr 15, 1967, compl. Dec 28, 1967) for Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping (Ceskoslovenska namorni plavba, COS/CNP, Prague, CS).
Launched as Gliwice (PL/Szczecin) for PZM.
Sister ships Krivan, Sitno and Radhost.
Blanik sailed mainly to Cuba and India, several voyages to Middle East (IN & ME trips were usually laden with military trucks and other military material).
In 1990 sold to Anglia Overseas Invest Corp. and renamed to Roshni (VC/Kingstown).
In 1999 seriously damaged by cyclone at 22N 68E (off Kathiawar peninsula, India), abandoned by crew and owner, towed to Bombay and broken up there in Dec 1999.
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